Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing to humanitarian aid and relief from Iran to be delivered to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Iranian media reported on Thursday.
The Iranian medical supplies are part of an Asian aid convoy, dubbed Asia 1, which is carrying an estimated one million dollars worth of medicine, foodstuffs and toys as well as four buses and 10 power generators for hospitals.
Last week, Egyptian authorities had denied entrance to a number of Iranian activists and refused to allow 10 generators donated by Tehran to pass through Rafah, the semi-official Iranian Press TV said.
The relief supplies have been unloaded from a ship organized by the convoy, which has docked at the Egyptian port of El Arish.
The Asian convoy consists of activists from more than 15 countries, including Iran, India, Japan, Indonesia and Kuwait.
