Unidentified armed men riding in vehicles (SUV) on Sunday evening, an armed attack on a security checkpoint at the entrance area of the pipe the Egyptian town of Rafah, and they seized the armored of the army this evening.
The security sources and witnesses said unidentified gunmen have seized an armored of the army, and then launched an attack on two points belonging to the army near the international mark No. 6 south of Rafah and Kerem Shalom area by firearms and mortar "RPGs" and bombs.
Witnesses said that 15 officers and soldiers of the army were killed as a result of armed attack on their points of security.
Witnesses said that Israeli occupation forces on the Egyptian border had fired warning shots in the air, in the occupied Palestinian side, and reached the tankers, helicopters, Israeli soldiers to the border for fear of the target.
The source believes the security belonging to one of the armed groups loyal to the region takfiri international terrorist organizations, led by al-Qaeda in Sinai.