The Egyptian source also denied Israeli media reports about Egyptian agreements with Israel regarding the Philadelphi corridor.

He stressed that all allegations about the Philadelphi corridor come within the framework of the Israeli efforts to conceal its ongoing military failure in the Gaza Strip.

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 corridor extends from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Karm Abu Salem border crossing in the south.

Egyptian security forces have patrolled the corridor after Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.

In addition, the Egyptian official said Cairo stressed the necessity of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing so that it can be reopened.

On 7 May, Israel launched its assault on Rafah, taking over the Palestinian side of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt for the first time since Israel pulled out its soldiers and settlers from the strip in 2005.

Egypt has demanded the withdrawal of the Israeli troops from the Palestinian side of the crossing, stressing that only the Egyptians and Palestinians have the right to manage the crossing.

Not a single aid truck has entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing since the incursion of the Israeli forces into the Palestinian side of the crossing.

Over the past weeks, Egypt coordinated with the UN to facilitate the entry of several trucks into the Gaza Strip through the Karm Abu Salem border crossing.

Israel, whose brutal war on Gaza has continued for nearly ten months, is facing mounting international pressure to agree to a Gaza ceasefire.

Since the war began on 7 October, Israeli occupation forces have killed 38,983 people, injured 89,727, caused extensive damage to Gaza's infrastructure, and displaced most of the strip’s residents.