A Palestinian woman carries her son during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah border crossing, outside the crossing in the southern Gaza Strip September 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
GAZA (Reuters) - Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a week after it was closed in response to a deadly attack on an Egyptian military headquarters near the frontier.
Witnesses said two buses took 100 passengers into Egypt through the Rafah crossing, the main window to the world for the Gaza Strip's 1.7 million Palestinians. Hundreds of other people waited outside the gates for a chance to enter Egypt.
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