Sentence examples for crossing was opened from inspiring English sources

When Israel pulled its settlers and troops out of Gaza in 2005, the Rafah crossing was opened with great fanfare to allow people in and out of Gaza.

The crossing was opened Thursday for the first time since April 19, but it was too crowded to operate, a spokeswoman for the European monitoring mission said.

Over the past 10 days, the Rafah crossing was opened only twice to allow Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side of the border to return to their homes in Gaza.

On 30 April 1964 another Forth crossing was opened up – 500 metres below the sea, when miners from the Kinneil colliery on the south side of the Forth broke through a tunnel to meet their co-workers from the Valleyfield colliery in Fife.

The Iron Bridge has just passed an anniversary as 1 January 1781 was the date when the crossing was opened to traffic.

The newer of the two bridges was opened by the prince in 1996 which cost £332m to build over four years and came 30 years after the original crossing was opened by the Queen.

Reports from witnesses say the barriers of the crossing were opened when the bus approached.

"If the crossing was open, I wouldn't be here," he said.

The governor of Assiut, Yahya Keshk, also said the crossing was open.

In a separate development on Wednesday, the governments of Iraq and Jordan said their only border crossing was open for the first time since 2015.

The last time the crossing was open in early December, Egypt opened it for only 2 days.