Palestinian Authority rejects Israeli bid to relocate Rafah border crossing
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has said that Palestine rejects any Israeli attempt to transfer or replace the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
“Israel is trying to relocate the crossing to another location. We affirm this is a pure Egyptian-Palestinian matter,” Shtayyeh said in a government session.
The Israeli Channel 13 had reported on Saturday that the Israeli government was considering relocating the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to the Kerem Shalom area.
Relocating the crossing to the border triangle between Israel, Gaza, and Egypt aims to prevent Cairo from intervening in the management of it, the channel added.
Rafah border crossing is the sole crossing point between Egypt and the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Israel launched a deadly offensive on Gaza on October 7, killing at least 27,365 Palestinians and injuring 66,630 others.
The Israeli offensive has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
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