“There is no truth to what is being circulated about the existence of Egyptian-Israeli security arrangements regarding the borders with the Gaza Strip,” the source said.

Israeli parties are behind such rumours, the source added.

“Israeli parties are … spreading rumours about new security arrangements with Egypt in a bid to hide their failure in Gaza,” the source was quoted as saying.

A report published by Reuters Friday claimed that Egypt has made a great effort in the ongoing ceasefire negotiations, but some points of disagreement are still there hindering achieving solid progress.

These negotiations, mediated and hosted by Cairo and Doha with the support of the US, aim to end the nine-month-long Israeli war and reach a detainee swap deal.

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

Egypt has repeatedly denied any coordination with the Israeli side concerning the border with Gaza while rejecting multiple Israeli suggestions to co-manage the crossing, a high-level source said in previous remarks to Al-Qahera News TV.

Egypt has also stressed that only the Egyptians and Palestinians have the right to manage the crossing, demanding the withdrawal of the Israeli troops from the Palestinian side of the Rafah 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 United Nations to facilitate the entry of several trucks into the Gaza Strip through the Karm Abu Salem crossing.

Since 7 October, Israel has killed 38,345 Palestinians, mostly children and women, injured tens of thousands of others, destroyed most of the strip infrastructure, and put the population at risk of famine.