The Gaza Strip's border with Egypt reopened on Friday after the Palestinian Authority negotiated an end to an armed blockade by policemen angered at the death of a colleague in a clan clash, officials said.
A spokesman for European Union security monitors at the main border crossing of Rafah said operations would resume at 3:15 P.M. local time. The monitors had been temporarily withdrawn shortly after the standoff began on Friday morning.
In another sign of the increasing anarchy in the Strip, a 14-year-old Palestinian youth was killed Friday after gunmen stormed a police station where relatives of the armed Palestinians were held, according to Israel Radio.
With Friday's border takeover, along with this week's kidnapping of a British aid worker and her parents, the chaos appears to be spreading to outsiders brought in to help develop the area in the wake of the Israeli pullout.
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