Egyptian officials reported Saturday that the leader of an outlawed Islamic organization has been arrested for entering Gaza, apparently through a smugglers' tunnel.
Majdi Ahmed Hussein, head of Al-Amal, was arrested at the Rafiah terminal, according to an Egyptian security official quoted by the AFP news agency.
A day earlier, Egyptian security personnel arrested two terrorists who emerged from a tunnel entrance near Rafiah. Seven other terrorists who had come through the same tunnel managed to escape into the area, however.
Egypt had already begun to install motion sensors and cameras along its border with Gaza on Thursday with help from American, French and German experts.
The sensors will reportedly detect subterranean construction and digging, thus helping to prevent terrorists from repairing or building new tunnels.
Former National Security Council director Giora Eiland has warned, however, that there is no way to stop smuggling at the border between Gaza and Egypt without Cairo establishing a security zone in which no one would be allowed to enter.