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Source: http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=254727
Israel Recruiting Nations to Combat Iran Smuggling
(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Katz - IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz is working to recruit countries from around the world to help combat the smuggling of weaponry from Iran to its terror proxies in the region, particularly to Hamas in Gaza and Hizbullah in Lebanon. Israel has specifically asked the U.S. and the EU to change the mandate of their fleets operating in the Red Sea and Mediterranean to allow them to board and detain vessels suspected of shipping weapons to Hamas and Hizbullah, seeking to build on the Gaza Counter Arms Smuggling Initiative, which was established following Israel's Gaza operation in 2009 to prevent Hamas from re-arming. GCASI's members are Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, the U.S. and Israel.