The Israel Navy intercepted an Iranian arms smuggling ship carrying dozens
of long-range rockets to Gaza near Port Sudan early on Wednesday.
The crew is in Israeli custody, and the ship is being towed by the Navy to Eilat, where it is expected to arrive in the coming days. The rockets originated in Syria, according to military intelligence assessments. Iran flew the rockets to an Iranian air field, trucked them to a sea port, and shipped them to Iraq, where they were hidden in cement sacs. The ship then set sail from Iraq to Port Sudan, near the Sudanese-Eritrean border, on a journey expected to last some ten days. Had the shipment of rockets not been intercepted, the rockets would have been unloaded at Port Sudan and taken overland through Egypt, into Sinai, and through smuggling tunnels into Gaza.With a range of between 100 to 200 kilometers (depending on upgrades carried out to their motors), the entrance of M-302 rockets to Gaza would represent a new level of threat to the Israeli home front.READ Full Story at the Jerusalem Post
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