Rafah opens - but not for most Gazans

From DPA:

Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, following at least a week of closures

Palestinian officials said the crossing was opened at 10 am. Only holders of foreign and Egyptian passports, as well as medical patients, would be allowed access, they added.

So students and other ordinary Gazans are still imprisoned by Egypt

For some reason, there are no special UN sessions dedicated to condemning Egypt, though.

(Ma'an says that students would be allowed to travel on Wednesday.)

The Daily News Egypt adds:

According to a statement released on the official page of the army spokesman, security forces have been carrying out “security missions” all over Sinai and managed to destroy the largest diesel gas smuggling network so far. The network consisted of seven underground tanks near the Rafah border, four of which are concrete and three are plastic, storing 30 tons of diesel gas to be smuggled to Gaza through pipes.

A small sailing boat was also caught attempting to smuggle subsidised diesel gas to a commercial ship in the Red Sea.

Security forces also managed to destroy two tunnels that are used to transport people and merchandise with entrances inside houses in the city of Rafah, North Sinai.