Zionist regime closes Gaza border crossings amid airstrikes

The illegal Zionist entity has closed border crossings into the Gaza Strip as the regime steps up its aerial assaults against the besieged coastal enclave.

Shutting the two border crossings effectively cuts off Gaza from the rest of the world by land, save for its small Egyptian border, which is generally closed. The territory is also under a naval blockade by the Israeli regime navy.

The Gaza Strip, home to 1.8 million, has been under an Israeli siege since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.

The development comes amid simmering tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories after US President Donald Trump announced on December 6 that the US was recognizing al-Quds as Zionist entity’s “capital”.

The Thursday assaults came as Gazans are marking 30 years since the founding of the Hamas resistance movement, which had been governing the territory since 2009.

The movement has defended the impoverished enclave against three deadly Israeli wars since then.

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