(Ismailia) Six people were injured when a rocket fell during the night from Thursday to Friday on Taba, an Egyptian town bordering Israel, at war since October 7 with Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip, report media and witnesses.
“As part of the current escalation in Gaza, a rocket crashed in Taba, causing six minor injuries,” reports AlQahera News television, close to Egyptian intelligence.
Witnesses told AFP that this rocket fell on an annex of a hospital in this town on the Red Sea, located at the northeastern tip of Sinai and where there is a border post to Israel.
Images broadcast on local media or social networks show a damaged building and several vehicles blown up in the surrounding area.
The Sinai desert peninsula is bordered at its northwest tip by the Gaza Strip and shares its northern border with Israel.
Egypt, historic mediator between Palestinians and Israelis and which holds the only opening to the world in the Gaza Strip which is not in the hands of Israel, has found itself on the front line since October 7.
That day, Hamas carried out an unprecedented surprise attack on Israeli soil which has since left more than 1,400 dead. In retaliation, Israel is now relentlessly bombing the Gaza Strip and has caused around 7,000 deaths according to local authorities.
Hamas, in power in Gaza, regularly, like other Palestinian armed groups, fires barrages of rockets towards Israeli territory.
On Sunday, the Israeli army announced that it had fired “by mistake” with one of its tanks on an Egyptian position on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip. Egypt reported the incident as well as an apology from the Israeli army, reporting “light injuries” in its ranks.
Egypt organized a “Summit for Peace” on Sunday. She continues to call for de-escalation between Israel and Hamas.
On Wednesday, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi reviewed his troops in Suez, at the entrance to the Sinai, calling for “reason” and “patience”, while urging his men to “always be ready”.