File Photo: The Karm Abu Salem crossing with Israel in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
In a comment to Egyptian news outlet Al-Qahera News on Monday, the source dismissed such reports as "completely false."
The 14-kilometre-long and 100-metre-wide Philadelphi corridor is a buffer zone on the Egypt-Gaza border guaranteed by the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
The route has been patrolled by Egyptian security forces after Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.
It extends from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Karm Abu Salem crossing in the south along the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip.
In October, Egypt warned Israel of any military operations in the narrow route.
In late December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made controversial remarks, telling a press conference that the narrow route “has to be in our hands.”
He claimed the step would ensure the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, where Israel has killed over 22,000 Palestinians – most of whom were women and children – and wounded thousands of others since 7 October.
Since the eruption of the Israeli war, Egypt has repeatedly rejected the forced displacement of the Gazans outside their land.
The Egyptian stance comes as several Israeli officials have been advocating for the deportation of the Palestinians in Gaza toward Egypt— a call that is considered a crime against humanity by the International Criminal Court.
Egypt views the deportation of Palestinians as a non-negotiable red line.
The country also warned that such a step would lead to the liquidation of the decades-old Palestinian cause.
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