pa href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-reopen-erez-border-crossing-gaza-minister-183940516.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/9tY6zQ1Rrt3wR16MnWcSwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/85de7c8add6e9813811bf83ca3d621d03da3076a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Israel to reopen Erez border crossing with Gaza: minister" align="left" title="Israel to reopen Erez border crossing with Gaza: minister" border="0" /aIsrael will reopen the Erez border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Monday, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, a week after closing it due to clashes. In a statement from his office on Sunday, Lieberman said the decision to reopen Erez, the only crossing for people in the north of the Palestinian enclave, was made "given the calm along the border". Israel closed the crossing on August 19 in response to what Lieberman then called "violent incidents", tightening its blockade of the landlocked territory run by the Islamist movement Hamas.pbr clear="all"
