The Gaza Strip’s land border with Egypt reopened Saturday after a 50-day closure, but only for three days and then just for special cases.

The Gaza Strip's land border with Egypt reopened Saturday after a 50-day closure, but only for three days and then just for special cases.

Passage to Egypt will be limited to those seeking medical treatment, students going to their places of study, foreigners and in cases deemed as humanitarian, Hamas's interior ministry said.

A busload of Palestinians heading for Egypt was the first vehicle through the crossing in the city of Rafah, which is also open to traffic in the opposite direction.

Egypt has severely restricted access through the crossing since July, when the army deposed President Mohammad Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood.

On Tuesday, Filippo Grandi, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) urged Egypt to let people through Rafah, saying only a handful of Muslim pilgrims had been allowed across over seven weeks.

He also called on the Zionist entity to ease its blockade of the territory, imposed in 2006.
Many Gazans travel through Rafah to seek medical treatment outside of the besieged Strip.