Egypt will indefinitely close its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, a Hamas official and Egyptian security sources told news outlets, following the weekend’s violent clashes along Gaza’s border with Israel. 

“We were informed by the Egyptian authorities that the Rafah crossing will be closed tomorrow, Monday, in both directions,” Iyad al-Bozom, spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry, said in a statement Sunday. 

Bozon did not say what prompted Rafah’s shuttering, but Egyptian security sources told Reuters that the recent cross-border violence led to the closure. On Saturday, Israeli jets bombed Hamas targets in Gaza in response to violent clashes along the perimeter fence that severely wounded an Israeli soldier. Dozens of Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, were injured by the Israeli fire. 

Hundreds of Palestinians had gathered to protest Israel’s blockade and restrictions on reconstruction following the 11-day conflict, which killed more than 250 Palestinians and 13 residents of Israel. Cairo, which in May brokered the cease-fire that ended the Hamas-Israel fighting, has been trying to negotiate a more permanent truce between the two sides.