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GAZA, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian authorities reopened Wednesday the Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip for four days for the second time in June and the fourth time this year, officials said.
The Hamas-run interior ministry said in an emailed official statement that reopening the crossing point wasn't permanent and it was only to let patients and students to cross from Gaza to Egypt.
The statement also said that the crossing was reopened to the Palestinians from Gaza stranded at different airports in various Arab and foreign countries.
On Wednesday morning, hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the outside gate of the crossing in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip, waiting for their turns to get into buses and travel to Egypt.
Hamas security and police officers were deployed to organize the people into the buses, which then cross through the Egyptian gate of the crossing.
Egypt reopened Rafah crossing point at the first week of June for four days, and it was also temporarily reopened in February and May this year.
According to the interior ministry, some 25,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip need to travel either to Egypt or to the world through Egypt.
