FILE PHOTO: The gate of Rafah border crossing is seen after it was opened under control of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority for the first time since 2007, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip November 18, 2017. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority said on Sunday it had ordered its employees to pull out from the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, effectively closing the main exit point from the impoverished Gaza Strip.
The dispute over the border stems from a rift between the PA, based in the occupied West Bank and headed by Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the Islamist militant group Hamas, which took control of Gaza more than a decade ago in a civil war.
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