Passage: At the time, a senior security official quoted by the Haaretz daily attributed the decision to halt the negotiations to Israeli concerns about the monitoring of travellers crossing the Rafah border between Gaza and Egypt since it reopened late last month, alleging that "hostile elements" had entered the territory. The Palestinians have been pushing for residents of Gaza and the West Bank to be allowed to travel back and forth, while Israel was insisting on limiting movement to Gazans.
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