Egypt has sent some 40 tanks and armored personnel carriers to the northeastern Sinai Peninsula in the past two weeks to bolster security on its border with Gaza. Egyptian authorities are also erecting brick walls on the border at intervals, as reported by sources in Rafah and in Egypt to the independent Egyptian media Mada Masr.
In the last decade, as part of a broad anti-terrorist campaign in northern Sinai and the tight blockade of the Palestinian territory, the Egyptian army had already erected another iron and steel fence and another six-story concrete wall.