Israel Egypt charge End Weapons smuggling to Gaza

The Government of Israel and Hamas rejected the idea of partisan establishment of international troops to be the mediator in the conflict in Gaza. Israel emphasizes the task of stopping arms smuggling from Egypt to Gaza Egyptian troops to be done.

Some European diplomats and Israel, said international troops are part of a package of the mediator. Troops is being prepared in order to end the attacks more than two sunday Israel in the Gaza Strip aimed at stopping rocket attacks of the Palestinian combatants. Egypt, said his side will not allow such forces placed at the border 15 kilometers from the Gaza Strip.

"No doubt, Egypt has a strong army that can handle all the symptoms that are not desirable from the point of security. No one party can compete with this," said an official of the Ministry of Defense of Israel, Amos Gilad, told Israel radio.

Gilad, who was appointed Israel in negotiations with the security of Egypt, said that, otherwise, international troops will be completely without intelligence, without the ability to penetrate those who do smuggling, and has no operational capability.

"As well as the international troops in south Lebanon and we know what they do there," he said to the troops considered the maintenance of peace Israel can not do much to stop the action gerilyawan Hizbullah Lebanon since the gerilyawan that involved engagement with the Jewish state in 2006.

Israel Radio proclaim, Gilad will visit Egypt, on Monday (12 / 1), to discuss the idea of cease-fire. Israel claims is a major mechanism to prevent the new Hamas combatants receive weapons through tunnels, the tunnel in the Gaza-Egypt border.