Hamas will close the Gaza Strip's breached border with Egypt, a senior official from the Palestinian Islamist faction said today, following talks in Cairo.
"We will work to close the border between us and Egypt," Mahmoud al-Zahar told reporters upon returning to Gaza from talks in Cairo. "We will restore control over this border, in cooperation with Egypt and gradually."
Hamas militants blew up a frontier wall on January 23rd to allow hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, impoverished by an Israeli-led blockade, to pour into the Egyptian Sinai and stock up on supplies. Egypt has since tried to seal the crossings.
Mr Zahar called the toppling of the wall a "popular action".
