The website added that four injured Palestinians arrived in Rafah from the besieged strip to receive treatment in Egyptian hospitals.

Egypt has received nearly 300 injured Palestinians for treatment in its hospitals since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza -- half of them wounded children.

Egypt began using the Karm Abu Salem border crossing on Tuesday to speed up aid delivery to the Gaza Strip.

Head of the Egyptian State Information Service (SIS), Diaa Rashwan, said on Tuesday that the Karm Abu Salem crossing would serve as a second point, alongside the Ouga crossing, for delivering aid to 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza facing near-starvation conditions after two months of Israeli brutal airstrikes and an all-out blockade on most water, food, and fuel supplies to the strip. 

"Under an agreement with the Israeli side, trucks carrying humanitarian and relief aid from Egypt can now be processed at the Karm Abu Salem border crossing -- located at the junction of the Gaza strip-Israel border and the Gaza-Egypt border -- before proceeding to deliver aid to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing,” Rashwan stated on Wednesday.

Israel agreed to the use of the Karm Abu Salem crossing during a visit by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to occupied Jerusalem, in which he pressed Israeli officials to reopen the crossing.

Before the recent agreement, aid convoys had to travel an extra 100 kilometres for trucks carrying aid from Egypt to be inspected at the Israeli Nitsana crossing, opposite the Egyptian Ouga crossing, before returning to the Rafah border crossing, where they enter Gaza. 

Since the start of the war, Egypt has called on the international community to pressure Israel to keep the Rafah border crossing permanently open to deliver aid to the strip.