Isreal plans to reopen the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, after nearly two years of closure.

However, the crossing, that links Gaza with Egypt, will only be opened to allow a “limited movement of people,” COGAT, a defence ministry body overseeing civil affairs in the Palestinian territories, said in a statement on Friday.

The opening of the crossing – a key entry point for desperately-needed humanitarian supplies for Gaza’s 2 million or so displaced people lacking food, shelter and medicines – is stipulated under the second phase of the United States brokered ceasefire deal designed to bring to a halt the devastating war between Hamas and Israel.

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