The Egyptian authority is engaging in negotiations with the Islamic movements which are associated with Jihadists in North Sinai, who are accused of kidnapping seven recruits Thursday to swap their detained relatives, a local security official told Xinhua Saturday.

A group of militants, believed to belong to hardline Jihadist movement, kidnapped three policemen and four soldiers of the armed forces Thursday in northern Sinai Peninsula, near the Green Valley, some 20 km away from Arish, the capital city of North Sinai governorate.

The abducted recruits are located between Rafah and Shiakh Zoied cities, said the official who requested anonymity.

"Negotiations are ongoing to release the soldiers, but the demands of the kidnapers, who belong to Jihadist movement, are beyond the legal frame," he said, adding that they asked for releasing all the detainees who were jailed over the 2004 bombing in Sinai, which left more than 30 people dead and almost 200 injured.

"If the negotiations are stuck, there will be no alternative, but military intervention," the official said.

Late Thursday, President Mohamed Morsi met Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Head of Intelligence Rafaat Shehata to discuss the latest development of mediation on the kidnapping.

Also, Emad Abdel Ghafour, assistant to Morsi, met Friday with several Islamic movements' leaders in North Sinai, conveying the presidency massage which states "listening to the demands of the kidnappers, working to solve it within legal procedures frame."