Haniya calls on Abbas for urgent meeting

Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian Prime Minister, on Wednesday called for an emergency meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas and Egyptian officials on opening Gaza border crossings.

"We are ready to sit down with our Egyptian brothers and the brothers from Ramallah during an emergency meeting in Cairo to establish arrangements to open the Rafah border crossing, as well as all other border crossings," Haniya said in a televised address.