Israel secretly asked Palestinian Authority to run Rafah crossing
Four officials from the PA, Israel and the United States told Axios that Israel made the request as Egypt threatened to disallow the transport of aid unless Israel withdrew from Rafah
A truck crosses from Gaza to Egypt, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt(photo credit: MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY/REUTERS)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, YONAH JEREMY BOBUpdated: