Israel extends closure on West Bank, Gaza
JERUSALEM (AA): Israel has extended the closure on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip until Monday.
In a statement, Israel’s military liaison unit to the Palestinians, known as COGAT, said the move was taken after a security evaluation of the situation in the Palestinian territories.
The statement said medical and humanitarian cases will be allowed to travel via the crossings during the closure.
Israeli authorities ordered the closure in the wake of an axe attack in the city of Elad near Tel Aviv in which three Israelis were killed.
On Sunday, the Israeli military said two Palestinians suspected of carrying out the attack were arrested after a four-day manhunt.
Tensions have been running high across Palestinian territories since last month amid repeated Israeli arrest campaigns in the occupied West Bank and daily settler incursions into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem.
Amnesty International said earlier this year that Israel was guilty of the crime of apartheid in the areas it occupies.
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