The Rafah crossing reopened after eight months, allowing fifty medical patients into Egypt to receive treatment.

The reopening of the Rafah crossing represents a significant breakthrough that bolsters the ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas agreed last month. Israel agreed to reopen the crossing after Hamas released the last living female hostages in Gaza.

Hamas-run authorities say sick, wounded children and carers evacuated through gateway; reports say injured Hamas fighters also set to cross under terms of hostage-ceasefire deal

Egypt's Al-Qahera television broadcast footage of at least two Palestinian Red Cross ambulances arriving at the crossing gate.

Palestinians have started arriving at the Rafah Crossing, which has reopened as part of the recent hostage-ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. Footage from the scene shows children and their caregivers waiting to cross into Egypt,

Over 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza are in urgent need of medical evacuation, including thousands of children, UN officials have warned ahead of the planned reopening of the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza on Saturday.

Hamas freed three hostages in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday and Israel released scores of Palestinian prisoners in a fourth round of exchanges as part the Gaza ceasefire deal. The swap came as sick and wounded Palestinian children began crossing to Egypt for treatment through Gaza’s Rafah crossing in the first opening of the border since Israel captured it nearly nine months ago.

The children are the first in what is meant to be regular evacuations of Palestinians through the crossing for treatment abroad. View on euronews