The Egyptian government has strengthened the security of its closed borders with the Gaza Strip under the pretext of preventing the displacement of the Palestinian people from the Strip to Sinai. A video published by a Palestinian journalist in Gaza showed Egyptian workers constructing a cement wall on the border with the Palestinian Strip.

It is clear from the video that the Egyptian workers were building the new wall on top of the old wall that already existed, meaning that their work was to increase the height of the wall. The Egyptian moves come in light of talk about an Israeli military move towards the Philadelphia axis.