The Egyptian authorities on Saturday closed the Rafah crossing between Egypt’s North Sinai and the Palestinian Gaza Strip five days after re-opening it, Youm7 reported.
A total of 403 Palestinians and Egyptians living in Gaza has crossed the border into the Egyptian territory while 226 people left the Egyptian borders into Gaza on Saturday before the crossing was closed at 05:00 a.m. Cairo local time, according to Gaza’s crossings and borders committee.
On Thursday, 588 students passed through the Rafah crossing, the committee said.
Last week, President Abdel Fatah al Sisi has ordered the opening of the crossing for five days to allow the passage of humanitarian cases, students, and the entry of Palestinians stranded outside of the besieged enclave.
The President ordered the crossing would be open to students on Thursday and Friday.
The crossing was partially opened Sunday to allow the passage of a 120-member Palestinian business delegation into Egypt in order to take part in an economic conference currently held at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Ain Sokhna.
Egypt, which also shares border with Gaza, has been imposing restrictions on opening the crossing with Gaza after the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
