Hamas rejects Abbas control over Egypt-Gaza border

GAZA – The Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers on Sunday rejected returning control of the territory’s sole border crossing with Egypt to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s government and said it was holding its own talks with Cairo.

“We have our own vision of how the crossing will be run and we will present our vision to our Egyptian brothers,” Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters.

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