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| IDF says navy thwarted weapons smuggling attempt to Hamas commandos from Sinai | |
| 2020-02-05 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Soldiers intercepted boat, arrested 2 on board who were moving arms to terror group’s naval operatives in Gazoo Strip some 3 months ago, military reports. Israel some three months ago thwarted an attempt to smuggle weapons from Sinai into the Gaza Strip via the sea, the military announced Tuesday. The army said the navy, aided by the Shin Bet security agency, stopped weapons intended for Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", as they were being ferried in on a boat. It did not provide a date for the operation or details on what weaponry was caught. The military said navy soldiers intercepted the boat and arrested two operatives on board. During their questioning they said the weapons were intended for Hamas naval commandos. Hamas naval commandos came to prominence during 2014’s war with the terror group, when members of the force swam ashore outside Kibbutz Zikim on Israel’s southern coast. The frogmen brought with them automatic weapons, fragmentation grenades and explosives, the latter of which they used against an Israeli tank, unsuccessfully. IDF surveillance crews noticed their movements and some 40 minutes after they came in from the surf, the Hamas operatives were killed in a combined attack from the sea, ground and air. Israel has since built a 200-meter-long sea barrier, alongside various technological means, to prevent future attacks. Israel has stopped multiple attempts to smuggle military gear and weapons into the Strip, both through the sea and through shipments entering the Paleostinian territory. Israel has maintained a naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled coastal strip since the terror group violently took over the territory from the Paleostinian Authority in 2007. Israel says the measure is necessary to prevent Hamas from acquiring weapons from overseas. Humanitarian aid is transferred to the Paleostinian enclaves through Israeli land crossings. As part of the blockade, fishing boats and other seagoing vessels are limited to traveling close to the coast.
While weapons smuggling into the blockaded enclave from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has decreased over the years, in 2016, the Navy intercepted a Paleostinian fishing vessel returning from the Sinai to the southern Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip weighed down by weapons. It was the third ship intercepted by the Navy and Shin Bet in a year and half. At the time, Ynet News reported that the Shin Bet said it had identified a pattern by Hamas to smuggle goods from the restive peninsula into the Strip to sell and finance the organization. | |
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