The Egyptian security delegation left the Gaza Strip on Saturday through Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing after holding several meetings with Palestinian top leaders.

The delegation led by the deputy head of the Egyptian Intelligence Service Ayman Badi’ had met with the head of Hamas’s Political Bureau Ismail Haneyya and representatives of the Higher National Committee for the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege.

The delegation also held several meetings with Palestinian factions and discussed ways to break the blockade the efforts exerted to reach a long-term ceasefire agreement with Israel the latest Israeli aggression on al-Aqsa Mosque and the escalated attacks on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

The Egyptian delegation on Thursday visited Rafah crossing and was briefed on the difficulties facing the Gazans travelling abroad through Egypt.

Following the visit a meeting was held to put forward mechanisms to alleviate the suffering of the Gaza Strip Palestinians travelling abroad via Rafah crossing.

The Egyptian delegation arrived in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and met with Hamas officials. They left on the same day to Tel Aviv and returned to the enclave on Friday.

Egypt has been sponsoring reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas to end the division that started after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007.

On 12 October 2017 the Palestinian rivals signed an agreement in Cairo that provided for enabling the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority government to run the Gaza Strip but it has never been brought into force.

Tension has been the case lately in the Gaza Strip because of Israel’s repeated violations of the Egypt-mediated ceasefire understandings between Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza and Israel and the Israeli army’s killing of peaceful protesters on Gaza border on a weekly basis.

The Egyptian security delegation left the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning following a three-day visit.

Palestinian Borders and Crossings Committee said that the delegation headed by the Egyptian Intelligence official Ahmad Abdulkhaliq left Gaza through Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing.

The Egyptian delegation during the visit met with Hamas’s chief in Gaza Yahya al-Sinwar visited the Great March of Return camps and attended a ceremony honoring the Palestinian resistance fighters who were killed in an Israeli attack last week east of Khan Younis.

The delegation also met with the member of Hamas’s Political Bureau Mahmoud al-Zahar in his house in Gaza city and discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian arena.

This is the Egyptian delegation’s seventh visit to the Gaza Strip in a month and the first since the latest military aggression on the enclave.

The Egyptian security delegation left the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning following a three-day visit.

Central operations manager at the Palestinian Borders and Crossings Committee Maher Abu Ouf told Quds Press that the Egyptian delegation left Gaza via Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing.

Hebrew website Reshet Kan reported that the delegation is scheduled to visit Tel Aviv and Ramallah on Saturday and return to Gaza on Sunday.

The Egyptian delegation arrived in the Gaza Strip several days ago to resume talks with the Palestinian factions on the reconciliation and the ceasefire agreement with Israel.

The delegation held some meetings and took part in the Great March of Return at Gaza border on Friday.