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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Iran increasing smuggling efforts to Gaza
2008-04-18
Iran has increased its efforts to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip by using floatable devices that it drops near the waters off the Gaza coast and are then picked up by Palestinian fisherman, senior defense officials have told The Jerusalem Post.

According to defense officials, Iran was sending rockets as well as other types of advanced weaponry to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip via tunnels dug under the Philadelphi Corridor and connecting the Sinai Desert with Rafah as well as by sea. Officials said that the Navy was doing an effective job in curbing the smuggling by sea but that there were shipments that Israeli forces did not succeed in intercepting.

"They throw the weapons overboard in waterproof sealed tubes which then float into the Gaza waters and are picked up by fishermen," one official said. "Sometimes Navy boats intercept them and sometimes they get through."
Be a real shame if those Iranian ships had a series of unfortunate accidents ...
In recent months, the IDF has noticed an increase in Iranian-made weaponry in the Gaza Strip, including rockets as well as mortars. Terror groups in Gaza recently were equipped by Tehran with two different types of mortar shells made in Iran - one 120 mm with a range of 10 kilometers like a Kassam rocket and another with a shorter range of six km.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Sounds like it might be real easy to scoop up their new toys, tinker with them a little bit and put them back in the water.
Then we could all sit back and read about all the noisy "mysterious" stuff suddenly happening in Gaza...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-04-18 16:42  

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