CAIRO, November 1. /TASS/. A third bus carrying dual nationals has passed through the Rafah border crossing from Gaza into Egypt, Al-Qahera al-Ihbariya television reported.

The report said Egyptian officials are "in touch with foreign embassies in order to ease entry to the country for people holding dual citizenship."

According to the official representative of the Palestinian side of the border crossing, Wael Abu Muhsen, a total of three buses carrying 160 passengers with dual citizenship, and 22 ambulances with injured people and their attendants went through from the Gaza Strip. Going in the opposite direction - from Egypt to the Palestinian enclave - were 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid.

Al Arabiya television reported earlier that "110 people arrived from the Gaza Strip to the Egyptian side of the Rafah land crossing" as part of the first group. The television channels do not specify citizens of which countries the people are.