{"id":3839,"date":"2016-08-27T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T14:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2016-08-27T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T14:40:51","slug":"egypt-to-reopen-rafah-crossing-for-gaza-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/egypt-to-reopen-rafah-crossing-for-gaza-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt to reopen Rafah crossing for Gaza pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rafah.jpg\" alt=\"rafah\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3840\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaza &#8211; Egyptian authorities will exceptionally reopen the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to allow pilgrims from the Israeli-blockaded strip to cross, a Palestinian official said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRafah terminal will be open for three consecutive days,\u201d Hisham Adwan, Palestinian director of the crossing, told Anadolu Agency on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>According to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Endowment, some 2,008 pilgrims will leave the strip for the major pilgrimage of Hajj. <\/p>\n<p>Blockaded by Israel &#8212; by air, land and sea &#8212; since 2007, the Gaza Strip has seven border crossings linking it to the outside world. <\/p>\n<p>Six of these are controlled by Israel, while the seventh &#8212; the Rafah crossing &#8212; is controlled by Egypt, which keeps it tightly sealed for the most part since the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi in a 2013 military coup. <\/p>\n<p>Israel sealed four of its commercial crossings with Gaza in June 2007 after Hamas wrested control of the strip from the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaza &#8211; Egyptian authorities will exceptionally reopen the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to allow pilgrims from the Israeli-blockaded strip to cross, a Palestinian official said. \u201cRafah terminal will be open for three consecutive days,\u201d Hisham Adwan, Palestinian director of the crossing, told Anadolu Agency on Saturday. According to Gaza\u2019s Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[382,279,543],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-egypt","tag-gaza","tag-rafah-crossing-point"],"views":818,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}