Dhaka, March 19 -- Israel reopened the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Thursday after nearly three weeks to allow some wounded Palestinians to leave for treatment, after Gaza medics said Israeli strikes had killed four people in the enclave.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said only eight Palestinians who were injured in Israeli attacks during the two-year war and 17 of their family members would be allowed into Egypt for medical treatment after the crossing reopened on Thursday.

It was unclear how many would be let through from Egypt back into Gaza.

Sources told Reuters earlier that the border opening resulted from recent talks that envoys from President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" had with Hamas officials in Cairo in an effort ...