CAIRO, Dec 20 (Aswat Masriya) – Egypt will allow crossing into Gaza through the Rafah border-crossing in Sinai on Sunday and Monday, reported the state-run news agency MENA.

The border-crossing, which connects the Sinai Peninsula to the besieged Gaza Strip, will be opened from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both days, MENA reported.

Egypt closed the Rafah border-crossing on October 25 "until further notice" following deadly militant attacks in Sinai a day earlier which rendered at least 33 security personnel killed.

At least 30 military personnel were killed in a suicide blast which targeted a security checkpoint in Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid on October 24, in the worst militant attack since the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July 2013.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency and a nighttime curfew in parts of the Peninsula in response to the militant attacks.

The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in a report on the strip last week that this is the longest period of time for the border-crossing to remain closed since 2008.

The office added that there are around 10,000 registered people waiting to exit the strip, including over a thousand medical patients, citing Gaza’s Border and Crossing Authority.

Since the October attacks in Sinai, the crossing has only been opened for four days; November 26, 27, 30 and December1, OCHA reported. It added that opening the crossing “allow[ed] some 3,242 out of an estimated 6,000 who are believed to be stranded in Egypt to return.”

Gaza has been under a land, air and sea blockade enforced by Israel since 2007, after the Islamist group Hamas won the Palestinian legislative election and became in control of the strip. Egypt has mostly kept its border with Gaza closed since then.