Egyptian authorities have re-closed Tuesday evening Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza after three days of partially opening it to allow the travel of the eighth batch of pilgrims and the return of the seventh batch.
840 Gaza pilgrims within the seventh batch were able to return to the besieged Strip via Rafah crossing along with a few numbers of Palestinians stranded on the Egyptian side, according to General Directorate of the crossings in the Interior Ministry.
The General Directorate confirmed that no one was allowed on Tuesday to travel through Rafah crossing into Egypt.
The Egyptian authorities have continued to close the Rafah crossing before the humanitarian cases, patients and students' travel until further notice.
The Rafah crossing has frequently been shut down or opened at reduced capacity after the military coup in Egypt, causing a humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
The Rafah crossing has been the principal connection between Gaza's 1.8 million residents and the outside world since the Israeli unfair siege was imposed in 2007.
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