Security sources: Weapons smuggling from Egypt into Gaza has ballooned

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update - 22:14 17/06/2006


Security sources: Weapons smuggling from Egypt into Gaza has ballooned

By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent

Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee 10 days ago that weapons smuggling from Egypt into the Gaza Strip has increased greatly since the Israel Defense Forces withdrew on September 12, 2005.

Diskin did not explain that most of the weapons are smuggled into Gaza through the tunnels at Rafah, just like before the IDF pullout. Palestinian security sources say smuggling has reached an unprecedented scope because there is no preventive activity on the Palestinian side.

Contraband materiel has included 11 tons of TNT, 3 million rifle bullets, some 10,000 rifles, 1,600 guns, 65 rocket propelled grenade launchers, 430 RPG shells and shoulder-launched missiles.

No Egyptian, Palestinian or Israeli official is currently willing to estimate the number of tunnels operating in the Rafah region, but the Egyptians report to Israel and the Palestinian Authority on tunnels exposed nearly every week. Many other tunnels are thought to be operating.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/727912.html

[sabbat hunter]

1. how about

instead of smuggling in arms, the smuggle in extra food and first aid for the citizens..

why isnt the PA doing anything about this? </sarcasm>