A woman was caught with three crocodiles strapped to her waist at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked “strangely fat”, officials said.

Three Palestinian government cars tonight passed through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt to fetch Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh after gunmen from his Hamas group seized control of the terminal.

Hamas militants today burst into the Rafah border terminal, sparking a gunbattle with guards before taking control of the crossing.

The Gaza-Egypt border opened for a day today, after weeks of closure following the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Hamas-allied militants in Gaza.