Report: Egypt seizes anti-aircraft weapons bound for Gaza
In a series of raids across the Sinai Peninsula, troops capture arms including machine guns, shells and anti-tank landmines.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news Egypt GazaEgyptian troops on Tuesday seized nine weapons consignments bound for the Gaza Strip that included anti-aircraft weapons, according to Israeli and Palestinian news reports.
In a series of raids across the Sinai Peninsula, which borders Hamas-controlled Gaza, troops recovered machine guns, ammunition, over 170 anti-aircraft shells, 90 artillery shells and anti-tank landmines, the reports said.
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Tents used by Palestinians as entrances to smuggling tunnels between Rafah in southern Gaza and Rafah in Egypt are seen on June 9, 2010. |
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The arms were discovered in a series of hideouts across the peninsula, while a cache of some 100 kilograms of TNT explosives was found in the border town of Rafah.
Egypt opened its border with Gaza in protest against Israel after Israeli commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists on a Gaza-bound aid boat in late May.
But in recent weeks, the Egyptian government has apparently cracked down on weapons smuggling to Gaza-based militants, destroying cross-border tunnels and seizing arms.
According to the Palestinian news agency Ma'an, a cargo of 150 anti-aircraft missiles was captured on August 31.
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Where is the evidence of this allegation? Show us the pictures of videos. We all know that the Palestinian resistance to the illegal Israeli occupation is fought only with stones, burning tyres and peaceful protest. The peace seeking and humanitarian Palestinians would never resort to using heavy weaponry as that would lower them to the same level as their Israeli enemy,
Gee, I didn't hear anything about this on the U.S. news outlets!
originate from?
This is absolutely same report as last week. Also seems to be the same ams found several months ago. All were found to be in poor condition and probably left over from 73. This is very poor reporting.
La paix pour tous!
no food , no water, no medicine only got money for weapons, and when they get their ass kicked they cry and the stupid world just feels sorry for them
Irony, meaning the incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result is present in this story. One consequence of the Flotilla Fiasco was a loosening of the blockade restrictions imposed upon Gaza by israel. This has ironically reduced smuggling from Gaza, and made it far easier to police weapons shipments into Gaza as recent stories have shown.
How much ammunitions and other weapons have been smuggled into Egypt until all these recent crackdowns..Thanks Egypt, but you're a little too late to bring some good PR to your country.
you have to know that Sinai is bigger than Israel three times and is a desert . how our board guard control every thing. it is a problem . this weapons can be used against Egypt . hamas hate Egypt more than Israel
thanks Eygpt every crackdown helps
Israel is the canary in the coal mine of the Islamification of the world. For years I have been told that the Jews want to take over the world. This is the furthest from the truth. We have enough problems as it is. Seems to me the seers of this revelation mistook the semite to be a jew rather than a moslem.
Anti-Air missiles could have been used to shoot down civilian aircraft in Egyptian tourist resorts by Al quaida.Egypt is aware that there is this problem.