“Amidst the current escalating situation in the Gaza Strip, a rocket landed in Taba, slightly injuring six people,” AlQahera News TV reported.
Witnesses told the AFP news agency that the rocket hit a hospital annex in the Red Sea coastal city, near the border crossing with Israel.
Images posted online and in local media showed a damaged building and mangled vehicles.
Egypt is playing an important mediating role in the war that broke out after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and taking more than 220 hostages.
Officials from the Hamas militant group that rules the Gaza Strip say the Jewish state’s retaliatory strikes on the enclave have killed more than 6,500 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt is Israel’s only non-controlled entry and exit point for food and aid into the enclave.
On Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inspected Egyptian troops in the Suez Canal province and told them to always be ready.
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