RAFAH, Egypt, May 16 (UPI) -- Thousands of Palestinians were waiting Saturday to take advantage of a rare opening of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, officials said.
Egypt moved to open the Rafah gate for two days as a humanitarian gesture. Leaders of the Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah passed through on their way to a negotiating session in Cairo, the Palestinian News Network reported.
Large crowds gathered on the Gaza side waiting to be let into Egypt to get medical care, witnesses said.
"There are at least 4,000 people registered and waiting, but from these we can facilitate a limited number," Dr. Ghazi Hamad, head of the crossings in the Gaza Strip, told PNN.
Hamad said only names who "are in the Interior Ministry computers will travel; they are the citizens whose names are officially disclosed."
