Gaza / Interior Ministry
Lieutenant colonel Ayoub Abu Sha'ar, head of Rafah crossing police, expected that crisis of travel through the Rafah crossing will be ended in the coming days.
Abu Sha'ar said in a televised statement on Monday morning "the crisis of travel through the Rafah crossing began to be confined, because of the end of the summer vacation and the majority of comers who came to visit their relatives in the Gaza Strip traveled, so the crisis is limited now and we hope to be ended during the current month."
He explained that if the crisis of travel through the Rafah crossing ended, it would operate normally, and every citizen is subject to the conditions of travel will travel after the end of the crisis.
Abu Sha'ar called citizens to wait a bit and assured them that the current crisis of travel will be ended soon and to facilitate travel for those who wish it.
Concerning the categories that allowed to travel, Abu Sha'ar showed that only patients, students and owners of residences in the Arab States or European countries as well as for foreign passport holders are allowed to travel.
"The previous categories are only allowed to travel because of the crisis that there is large numbers of citizens who wish to travel." Abu Sha'ar added.
Regarding the deportation of Palestinians by the Egyptian authorities, Abu Sha'ar pointed out that " deportation " ended after the events of the revolution in the twenty fifth of January and the reopening of the crossing for the departures from the Gaza Strip from the twelfth of February last.
