CAIRO - Egyptian security said on Wednesday that Gaza militants may be behind rockets that hit Israel and Jordan on Monday, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported.

"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.

Rockets from Egypt's Sinai, where Islamist militants have operated in the past, hit Israel's and Jordan's Red Sea ports on Monday, killing a Jordanian civilian and injuring three others, Jordanian and Israeli police said.