In recent months, Israel has bombed several trucks in the Sinai Peninsula carrying weapons and missiles bound for terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, according to an exclusive report in i24NEWS.
Palestinian sources said that from November until the end of May, the Israeli Air Force has targeted three trucks, including one carrying a shipment of Iranian missiles bound for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad discovered in March.
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The trucks, carrying missiles, weapons, and highly explosive materials, were on their way to Gaza after being transferred through arms dealers in Libya, where they had been sold to Hamas and other terrorist groups by Palestinian intermediaries in various countries.
Israel is reportedly leading a large intelligence operation in the Sinai to prevent the arrival of weapons and money to Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in Gaza through smuggling tunnels.
In recent years, Israel has bombed more than 13 tunnels dug by Hamas and PIJ in an effort to bring money, weapons, rockets, and materials to develop rockets and other explosives into the terrorist enclave.
Residents in Rafah, located on southern Gaza's Sinai border, say they have witnessed several incidents of Israeli planes attacking targets inside Sinai without knowing what was being targeted, the Palestinian sources said.
It is unclear if the activity targeting the weapons arsenal of Gazan terrorists is connected to Israel's ongoing cooperation with Egyptian security forces to fight Islamist terrorism in the Sinai region.
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
