Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday, following a new schedule previously announced by government officials.
The crossing will be closed Saturday and reopen Sunday morning.
The new instructions stipulate the crossing will be closed on weekends as well as national and religious holidays to give border crossing workers time off, according to an Egyptian security source.
The schedule was changed to align it with that of other government jobs, which do not require employees to work Friday or Saturday, the source said.
Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing for unspecified reasons in June 2010, shortly after Israeli attacks on the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship which sailed to Gaza as part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
