"In the first moments of Israel's abandoning of Gaza they smuggled weapons," Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuval Steinitz said. "The ink on the agreement has not even dried and the Philadelphi route [Egyptian-Gaza border] is being used for massive weapons smuggling."
"I am not optimistic," Col. Yoav Mordechai, the outgoing military liasion with the Gaza Strip, said. "We are walking on very thin ice. One attack could result in major retaliation by the military."
The sources said the PA has ordered SA-7 surface-to-air missiles from Egyptian smugglers in the Sinai. They said the amount of weapons brought to the Gaza Strip this week exceeded the volume of that smuggled via tunnels in all of 2005.
"Many of these weapons, particularly the anti-aircraft missiles, had been stored in eastern Sinai, but could not be brought into the Gaza Strip — at least not in large quantities — because of our presence along the border," a source said. "These stockpiles are now being depleted."
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