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Israel will re-open its only crossing from Gaza for workers two days after closing it, the defence ministry said Monday, following a lull in rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave. Online News
“Following a security assessment, it has been decided… that as of tomorrow… labourers and merchants will again be permitted to enter Israel from Gaza through the Erez crossing,” said COGAT, a unit of the Israeli defence ministry responsible for Palestinian civil affairs.
The crossing is used by 12,000 Palestinians with permits to enter Israel for work.
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“Opening the crossing for merchants and labourers and the other civilian measures applied to the Gaza Strip are conditioned on the continued preservation of a stable security situation in the area,” COGAT said in a statement.
On Saturday, COGAT had announced it was closing Erez after militants in Gaza fired projectiles at Israel for four consecutive days, amid a second weekend of heavy clashes at east Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The unrest, which came as the Jewish festival of Passover overlapped with the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, sparked fears of a wider conflict, nearly one year after similar violence at Al-Aqsa led to an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza-based militants.
No rockets have been fired from Gaza since Saturday morning.
Overnight Sunday into Monday, a projectile was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, the army said. Nobody claimed responsibility for that fire and Israel’s military responded by firing artillery rounds into Lebanon.
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