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PALESTINE

Sat 18 Jan 2025 11:15 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli source: PA employees in uniform will "take over" crossings

Israel's Channel 12 reported on Saturday morning, quoting an Egyptian source it described as "high-ranking," confirming in a statement to the channel that "Israel changed its position during the talks that took place in Cairo over the past two days," and that it "agreed that the Palestinian Authority employees who will be stationed at the crossings to the Gaza Strip will wear the official uniform" of the Palestinian Authority.


In addition, the Israeli source continues, “Signs representing the Palestinian Authority will be placed, to highlight the responsibility they will assume regarding traffic at the crossings, alongside the European monitoring team that will return to the crossings in accordance with the 2005 agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority - two years before Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip,” according to the Israeli source.


It is noteworthy that the Palestinian presidency renewed, yesterday, Friday, its demand that "the State of Palestine assume its full responsibilities in the Strip, considering it an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territory."


It said in a statement that "the State of Palestine has legal and political jurisdiction over the Strip, like the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and rejects the severing of any part of it."


She said that the Palestinian government "has completed all preparations to assume its full responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, and that its administrative and security teams are fully prepared to carry out their duties, to alleviate the suffering of our people, return the displaced to their homes and places of residence, restore basic services such as water, electricity, take over the crossings, and rebuild."


It will take effect at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.


Earlier on Saturday, the Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza announced "the start of the deployment of its devices in the governorates of the Strip with the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement" tomorrow, Sunday.


The ministry recommended "the necessity of taking precautions, exercising the utmost caution, and waiting for instructions from official sources."


The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip will go into effect at 8:30 Palestine time, on Sunday morning.

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