Palestinian women living near Erez crossing point walk near the border after its closure from the Palestinian side in Beit Hanun town in the northern Gaza Strip, 26 March 2017. Erez crossing point has been closed after senior leader of Ezz Al-Din Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Mazen Al-Faqhaa was killed on 24 March 2017 after gunmen shot him dead near his home in Tal Al-Hawa neighbourhood.  Al-Faqhaa was freed by Israeli in 2011 prisoner swap with more than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli solder Hamas had detained for five years.