By Ola Attalah
GAZA CITY
The Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip said Monday that its personnel had found and defused three explosive devices on the border with Egypt.
Ministry spokesman Eiad al-Bozum said the three devices had been found on the southern border of the Gaza Strip with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Al-Bozum added that the operation had been carried out within the context of border surveillance conducted by the Gaza Interior Ministry.
The ministry, al-Bozum said, would hunt for those responsible for planting the devices, stressing that it would not tolerate any lapses in border security.
The Gaza Interior Ministry had earlier said that it had stepped up security on the border with Egypt.
Egyptian authorities on October 24 shut the Rafah crossing on the border with the Gaza Strip. The move followed a deadly attack on a military site in northern Sinai that left 31 Egyptian troops dead and a comparable number injured.
Since then, the Egyptian military has launched a massive manhunt for militants it says are based in the parched peninsula. The operation is being conducted by all divisions of the Egyptian army supported by helicopter gunships.
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