{"id":11006,"date":"2017-11-06T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11006"},"modified":"2017-11-06T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:06:03","slug":"hamas-hands-over-egypt-border-crossing-to-palestinian-authority-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/hamas-hands-over-egypt-border-crossing-to-palestinian-authority-afp\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas hands over Egypt border crossing to Palestinian Authority: AFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"lead\">Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip&#8217;s border with Egypt to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, an AFP journalist said, in a first key test of a Palestinian reconciliation accord agreed last month.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>(AFP) &#8212;\u00a0Nazmi Muhanna, the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s top official for border crossings, formally received control of the Rafah crossing with Egypt from his Hamas counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>At a separate checkpoint with Israel, an AFP photographer also saw Hamas installations being dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>At the Rafah crossing, Palestinian and Egyptian flags were flying, with large pictures of Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas and Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.<\/p>\n<p>Hisham Adwan, director of information at the Hamas crossings authority, told AFP that Palestinian Authority employees would resume full control of the border.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Egyptian-brokered deal, the Palestinian Authority is due to take full control of Gaza by December 1.<\/p>\n<p>The checkpoints had been due to be handed over by November 1 and were seen as a first key test of the strength of the reconciliation agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007 when seized control in a near civil war with Abbas&#8217;s Fatah, based in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>A number of issues, including the future of Hamas&#8217; vast military wing, remain uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple previous reconciliation agreements have collapsed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip&#8217;s border with Egypt to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, an AFP journalist said, in a first key test of a Palestinian reconciliation accord agreed last month. (AFP) &#8212;\u00a0Nazmi Muhanna, the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s top official for border crossings, formally received control of the Rafah crossing with Egypt from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-audio-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11008,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions\/11008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}