Israel says it seized Iranian arms shipment for Hezbollah November 4

By David Buimovitch (AFP) " 15 hours ago

ASHDOD, Israel " Israel said on Wednesday that commandos had intercepted a ship carrying "hundreds of tonnes" of arms from Iran to Hezbollah in a raid dozens of miles off its coast but both Iran and Syria denied the cargo was headed to the Lebanese militia.

"We found dozens of containers, with hundreds of tonnes of arms bound for Hezbollah from Iran," Israeli deputy naval commander Rani Ben Yehuda told reporters.

The shipment was among the largest ever seized by Israel, dwarfing the 50 tonnes of weapons found aboard the Karine A seized in 2002 on its way to Gaza, which dealt a major blow to relations between the Palestinians and Washington.

At the Mediterranean port of Ashdod, soldiers pulled hundreds of olive-green ammunition crates from shipping containers, many of them concealed by sacks of cement.

They were then divided into huge stacks of rockets of various sizes, mortar rounds, hand grenades and ammunition for AK-47 rifles. Many of the weapons crates had inscriptions in Spanish, Chinese and English.

The military had earlier announced that it had seized the 137-metre (450-foot) Antigua-flagged vessel Francop before dawn around 100 nautical miles from the Israeli coast.

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One should always have some doubt about anything that Israel claims to be true. This is after all the country that stands accused of war crimes during their recent invasion of Gaza

"Israel says"....alot of things.