The security cabinet will meet this morning to discuss the Rafah Border Crossing in Gaza, following an announcement on Thursday that the crossing was to reopen in both directions this week.
The meeting comes after reported Israeli criticism of the US push to open the crossing between Gaza and Egypt. On Thursday, Ali Shaath, the chief commissioner of a newly formed Palestinian technocratic committee set to run Gaza, announced that the crossing would open.
Nikolay Mladenov, the Gaza envoy for US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, confirmed that the crossing would reopen soon.
On Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to discuss the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire, which Trump kicked off last week and which is meant to establish longer-term security and governance frameworks in the Strip.
Israel is reportedly angry that the crossing is to reopen before the body of the final Israeli deceased hostage held in Gaza, Ran Gvili, has been returned.
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