[Al Ahram] Egyptian security forces have intercepted a number of Grad rockets...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
being smuggled from the Gazoo Strip through cross-border tunnels into Egypt's Sinai, MENA reported on Friday.
| So much for even the smidgen of a fraction of hope that Egypt would have pressured Israel to back off. |
Around one hundred people have been killed in Gazoo by Israeli
The sources said that the bully boyz were planning to use the weaponry to fire at Israel or against Egypt's security forces in Sinai, where the military is fighting an Islamist insurgency.
Since early 2013, Egypt's military has intensified a campaign against cross-border smuggling tunnels between its volatile Sinai Peninsula and the Gazoo Strip, saying they are used by bully boyz on both sides to smuggle fighters and weapons.
Egypt's government accuses Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the dominant force in Gazoo, of aiding Islamist bully boyz at home--charges the Islamist group denies.
The closure of most of the hundreds of passages, used to smuggle goods into the Paleostinian enclave, has led to acute fuel shortages and steep hike in prices.