Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A trip to Moscow next week by the leader of Palestinian movement Hamas has been cancelled,

Interfax news agency quoted the ambassador for the Palestinian Authority to Russia as saying on Thursday.

The Hamas leader had been expected to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on January 15.

In the latest development in the escalation between Hamas and the Palestinian Authorities, Egypt announced last Monday that it will bar Gazans from crossing into its territory as of Tuesday after the Palestinian Authority withdrew staff from the border point over alleged abuses.

*Reuters