Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki has arrived in Cairo to attend an Arab foreign ministers' meeting to discuss Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza, which have killed more than 100 Palestinians so far, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Al-Maliki will be discussing the issue with foreign ministers and Arab League Secretary General Nabil El-Arabi.  

Kuwait, which holds the rotating leadership of the Arab League, demanded called an urgent three-day meeting to discuss the deteriorating situation in Gaza.

On Thursday, Egypt opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to receive Palestinians injured in an intensifying Israeli offensive against the enclave.

Meanwhile, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ordered the Egyptian army to transport 500 tonnes of food and medical supplies to aid Palestinians.

Egypt's foreign ministry condemned earlier what it said was Israel's excessive use of military force and collective punishment against the Palestinians.

Egyptian activists have begun to collect medical supplies for Palestinians, to be transmitted by convoy to Gaza.

Violence in the coastal strip began building up three weeks ago after three Jewish settlers were abducted in the occupied West Bank. They were killed and their bodies were found last week. Then a Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and killed in Jerusalem.