Gaza, ALRAY - Spokesman for Ministry of Interior and National Security Islam Shahwan denied that Egyptian tanks entered the first line of the border (barbed wire) with the Gaza Strip.
Shahwan told ALRAY that "the National Security Forces denied access of any tank into the borders," calling on the media to investigate the accuracy in treating such news.
Local media reported earlier that two Egyptian Tanks crossed for the first time Thursday evening the barbed-wire fence into the Gaza Strip.
"The tanks invaded for the first time this line and walked on the road adjacent to the concrete wall erected by the Egyptian authorities on the border with the Gaza Strip years ago," it added.
The sources indicated that “masked black-clad gunmen topped tanks while a Verna car driven by a masked militant was going along in between,”
The armored tanks headed east towards the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing closed since two days, according to the sources.
The Egyptian army recently sent reinforcements along the border with the Gaza Strip where tanks and artillery neared the border in an unprecedented development.
The Egyptian army has destroyed most of the underground tunnels used to bring food and goods and fuel to the Gaza Strip which has been under an Israeli blockade since more than 6 years.