Eight Palestinian national unity cabinet ministers would arrive in the Gaza Strip on Monday to take over their responsibilities, a cabinet minister said Sunday.
Eight Palestinian national unity cabinet ministers would arrive in the Gaza Strip on Monday to take over their responsibilities, a cabinet minister said Sunday.
Palestinian Justice Minister Selim al-Saqqa added that the eight ministers would arrive in Gaza together with the energy authority head, the environmental quality authority head and 35 other civil servants.
He told The Anadolu Agency that the ministers would carry out their ministerial duties from the blockaded Palestinian territory, noting that they would work to solve the territory's problems.
Al-Saqqa said Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah would arrive in Gaza this week as well.
The national unity cabinet works to solve the problems of the Gaza Strip, even as available resources are limited, al-Saqqa said.
Monday's visit to Gaza would be the second by the national unity cabinet ministers. Hamdallah visited the embattled enclave on October 9. He spent one day there.
While the government was formed in June of this year against the background of a reconciliation deal between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas in April, it has not taken over the responsibility of the Gaza Strip yet.
Israeli forces stage limited Gaza incursion
Meanwhile, Israeli forces staged on Sunday a limited incursion into the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses have said.
Three Israeli military bulldozers stationed near the border pushed some 150 meters into farmlands in Gaza's southern Rafah city, eyewitnesses told The Anadolu Agency.
The bulldozers scooped a large tract of farmland before turning back, they added.
Israeli helicopters have also been seen flying at low altitudes along the border between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel.
Israeli authorities have yet to comment on the incident.
Sunday's incursion comes a few days after Israeli forces killed a fighter from the Ezzedin Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in Israeli shelling of southern Gaza.
The Israeli government later claimed that the aerial and artillery shelling came in response to the injury of an Israeli border guard by a Palestinian sniper.
Sunday's incursion was the second by Israel into the Gaza Strip this month, despite an August 26 cease-fire with Palestinian resistance factions.
The Egypt-brokered, open-ended cease-fire ended a seven-week Israeli military onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli offensive, which began on July 7, left 2,160 Palestinians – the vast majority of them civilians – dead and more than 11,000 injured.
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