Egypt’s Rafah border crossing will open from Tuesday to Thursday in both directions, the Palestinian embassy in Cairo said.
In a statement issued on the embassy’s official website late on Saturday, Palestinian ambassador to Cairo Diab Allouh thanked Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and the Egyptian authorities for their “constant and tireless efforts to alleviate the burdens on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
The Rafah border crossing is the main gateway to the outside world for around 2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, and is the only crossing point not controlled by Israel.
Egypt opens the crossing periodically for humanitarian purposes.
