Egyptian officials said it appears Palestinians from Gaza were behind the rocket attacks on southern Israel and the Jordanian town of Aqaba.
 

In Monday’s rocket attack, a Jordanian citizen was killed and four others injured after five rockets were fired in two salvos at Israel’s southernmost city Eilat and the Jordanian resort of Aqaba .
 

The following day Egyptian security forces searched the area where they believed the rockets were found from but found no trace of launchers.
 

On Wednesday, the Egyptian news agency MENA quoted Egyptian security officials saying that according to information received, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are behind the rocket attacks.
 

 "The preliminary information that the security has received indicates that Palestinian factions from the Gaza Strip are behind that operation," the state news agency quoted an unnamed security source as saying.  

“Egypt will never, under any circumstances, tolerate the use of its lands by any party to harm the country's interests," the agency quoted the source as saying.
 

An Egyptian intelligence official said that Jordan and Israel said the rockets were fired from a specific hotel but forces searched the area and found nothing.
 

Palestinian media reports said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri criticized the Egyptian accusations Wednesday saying it appears to be politically motivated, and there is no evidence to back the claims.