[CBS News] Dan Raviv - CBS News national security correspondent David Martin has been told that Israeli aircraft carried out an attack on a weapons convoy in Sudan in January. Israeli intelligence is said to have discovered that weapons were being trucked through Sudan, heading north toward Egypt, whereupon they would cross the Sinai Desert and be smuggled into Hamas-held territory in Gaza. In January, the U.S. signed an agreement with Israel that calls for an international effort to stop arms smuggling into Gaza, from where Hamas was showering rockets on Israeli towns. In the airstrike - said to have been "in a desert area northwest of Port Sudan city, near Mount al-Sha'anoon," according to the Sudan Tribune - 39 people riding in 17 trucks were reportedly killed. The state minister for highways, Mabrouk Mubarak Saleem, said: "A major power bombed small trucks carrying arms - burning all of them."
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