Egypt- Rafah border crossing open since Saturday

(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) Egypt has decided on Friday to open the main gate of the Rafah border crossing for three days, until Monday, so that buses carrying patients and students from Gaza could move to Egypt.

According to state-run news agency MENA, the border crossing will be opened in order to transfer Palestinian patients, students, and carriers of foreign stay permits to Egypt.

Egyptian authorities have, for the most part, kept the Rafah border crossing closed since July 2013. They had launched a campaign to destroy illegal underground tunnels, which have been vital in supplying Gaza residents with food, medicine, fuel, and building materials.

In October, Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement at the Egyptian General Intelligence Service headquarters in Cairo and agreed to proceed with further meetings between factions to plan presidential and legislative elections.

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