[Ha'aretz] Barak Ravid, Amos Harel, and Avi Issacharoff - A memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Israel on security and intelligence cooperation aimed at countering the smuggling of arms into Gaza is being prepared. The agreement involves a U.S. guarantee to act more extensively to halt the smuggling of arms from Iran, through the Persian Gulf to Sudan and other countries, and finally to Hamas in Gaza. At the same time, a top Israeli diplomatic source said he was told by a senior Egyptian official that "we understand the problem and promise that the matter of smuggling will end." The Egyptian added, "Now we have the legitimacy to fight it, in order to prevent continued IDF activity."
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