The Egyptian government has this week stepped up military reinforcements in and around the once restive North Sinai province ahead of an imminent Israeli ground invasion of the Palestinian Rafah City, bordering Egypt, a threat recurrently rejected by Cairo. The New Arab’s Arabic language sister publication, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, reported on Thursday, citing a well-informed Egyptian source as saying that “Egyptian troops have been stationed along the 14-kilometre border strip with Gaza” as part of a plan to deal with a possible Israeli ground invasion of Rafah. “A state of readiness has been impo…