CAIRO, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Egyptian officials allege Palestinians from Gaza entered the Sinai and fired rockets at the southern Israeli town of Eilat and the Jordanian town of Aqaba.
In Monday's rocket attack, a Jordanian citizen was killed and four others injured after five rockets were fired in two salvos at the Israeli and Jordanian towns.
Following the attacks, Israeli and Jordanian officials said it appeared the rockets were fired from the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, a claim Cairo denied.
Despite this, Egyptian security forces Tuesday searched the area where they believed the rockets were fired from, but found no trace of launchers.
On Wednesday, the Egyptian news agency MENA quoted Egyptian security officials saying information received indicated Palestinians from the Gaza Strip perpetrated the attack.
The news agency said it appeared the Palestinians entered the Sinai Peninsula via tunnels from Gaza to fire the rockets.
"The preliminary information that the security has received indicates that Palestinian factions from the Gaza Strip are behind that operation," the state news agency quoted an unnamed security source as saying.
"Egypt will never, under any circumstances, tolerate the use of its lands by any party to harm the country's interests," the agency quoted the source as saying.
Palestinian media reports said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri criticized the Egyptian accusations Wednesday, saying they appeared to be politically motivated, and there was no evidence to back the claims.
