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November 23, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-22/closing-arms-tunnels-crucial-to-ending-israel-hamas-war.html

Closing Arms Tunnels Crucial to Ending Israel-Hamas War

(Bloomberg) Nicole Gaouette - The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is unlikely to end their conflict unless smuggling routes the militant group uses to re-arm itself are closed. So long as militants can restock their arsenals with goods from Sudan, Libya and Iran smuggled through Gaza's tunnels, any Israeli success against Hamas will be short-term, said Adam Hug, policy director at the Foreign Policy Centre in London. Egypt's new government is "too stressed out on other issues" to deal effectively with the tunnels, said Paul Sullivan, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington. "The fact that the Egyptian military could not stop the murder of their own in North Sinai in July says a lot."

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