An Egyptian security source refuted claims on Saturday that Israeli military aircraft had breached Egypt’s airspace.
Egypt categorically denied media reports that Israeli military aircraft penetrated Egyptian airspace, the security source was quoted as saying by Egypt’s Al-Qahera News TV.
The source described these reports as false and baseless.
According to an investigation conducted by the “Arabic Post” news website, an Israeli military aircraft entered the Egyptian territory about 100 times since the start of the war on Gaza on Oct 7, 2023, until Feb. 23, 2024.
During one of its flights, this aircraft entered a depth of 172 kilometers inside Egypt from the side of the border with Gaza, said the Arabic Post.
Egypt, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, has for years been a key regional peacemaker in the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
In a separate development, the Hamas-run Health Ministry announced on Saturday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 29,606 since the onset of the war on October 7th last year.
