The authorities are treating the incident as a criminal case and have no evidence linking the shooting to the man's ethnic background.

The interior ministry confirmed the shooting and stated that the man was a permanent resident of Egypt.

No further details were provided, and a statement claiming responsibility by a previously unknown group called "Liberation Vanguards" was circulating on social media, but it has not been verified by security sources.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces took control of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, resulting in the shooting death of an unspecified number of people.

This crossing is where over one million displaced Palestinians have sought refuge during Israel's seven-month-old offensive in Gaza.

In a related incident, two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide were shot dead in Alexandria, Egypt, in the first such attack on Israelis in Egypt in decades.

A policeman was subsequently taken into custody for the Alexandria shooting, reportedly confessing to "losing control."