Eyewitnesses confirmed to AFP and Reuters news agency that a rocket had hit the Red Sea town on the northeastern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, where a border crossing to Israel operates.
Five people were injured on the night of Thursday to Friday in Tampa, an Egyptian city on the border with Israel, due to a rocket, against the background of the war that the Israeli army has been waging since October 7 with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, media reported and eyewitnesses.
Tampa, opposite Eilat, is a tourist destination.
It is over 350 kilometers from the Gaza Strip.
“Amid the current escalation in Gaza, a rocket fell in Taba, causing five injuries and material damage to an apartment building,” reported Egypt’s Al-Qahera television, widely believed to have sources in the Egyptian intelligence service.
Eyewitnesses confirmed to AFP and Reuters news agency that a rocket had hit the Red Sea town on the northeastern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, where a border crossing to Israel operates.
The Israeli military announced that it was “aware” of a “security incident” in Tampa, “outside our borders.”
Source :Skai
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