
Thousands of Gazan cross-border workers in Israel and the occupied West Bank returned to Gaza today, several witnesses told Reuters.
Some of the Gaza workers returned through the Kerem Shalom crossing, east of the Rafah border crossing between the besieged enclave and Egypt, they added.
" Israel is cutting off all contact with Gaza. There will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza. Those workers from Gaza who were in Israel on the day the war broke out will return to their country ," said a post from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in X.
Israel's security cabinet also agreed to "deduct all funds earmarked for the Gaza Strip... from Palestinian Authority [PA] funds ."
The PA has control over areas of the occupied West Bank, but not over the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. About 18,500 Palestinians from Gaza had received permits to enter Israel before the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas militants.
Since then, Israel has launched a retaliatory bombing of the Strip. More than 9,000 people have been killed here, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
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