"There is now word coming out that Hamas security forces will assist Egyptian security in closing the Rafah crossing. The Palestinian Authority has also said that they are prepared to handle the situation."
Political row
The issue has now turned into a political row between Egypt and Israel.
Matan Vilnai, the Israeli deputy defence minister, said Israel gradually wants to relinquish responsibility for Gaza, now that the territory's border with Egypt had been blown open.
Egypt has angrily rejected the suggestion and said it would not change border arrangements.
The blasts that made holes in Gaza's border with Egypt came after the Israeli government blocked fuel and aid shipments into Gaza beginning last week.
Hamas officials have denied ordering the explosions that blasted open the border walls.
At the World Economic Forum convened in Davos, Switzerland, Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister whose government is based in the West Bank and has no control over Gaza, called the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip "absolutely disastrous".
"This is a pressure cooker kind of situation and a very damaging situation - one that threatens to spiral out of control," he told delegates.
A series of Israeli air raids on Gaza over the past 10 days also claimed the lives of more than 40 Palestinian people, most of them fighters.
Israel says its actions are aimed at halting rockets fired into southern Israel from Gaza by Hamas fighters and denies that it is engaging in "collective punishment" against the Palestinian people.