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Libya has become a new source of smuggled weaponry for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.
With eastern Libya largely held by rebels who rose up against Muammar Gaddafi in February, arms were being brought across the border, through neighboring Egypt, to the Islamist Hamas-ruled territory, Vice Premier Moshe Yaalon said.
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Hamas officials had no immediate comment on Yaalon's charge.
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which borders both Israel and Gaza, has long seen traffic in Palestinian arms which come up through Sudan or are brought in by ship over the Mediterranean.
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