EL-ARISH: Egyptian authorities on Wednesday discovered a cache of weapons in the Sinai desert including mortars and hand grenades, a security official said.
Authorities found a warehouse in central Sinai containing weapons left over from previous Arab-Israeli wars, the official told AFP. Authorities also found mortars and hand grenades in the warehouse.
Israel and the United States have repeatedly accused Egypt of not doing enough to stop arms smuggling into the neighboring Gaza Strip, which has been under the control of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas for the past year.
Cairo has strongly denied the charges.
Under an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire deal for Gaza that came into effect last week, Israel insists that Cairo do its utmost to halt weapons smuggling from the Sinai peninsula into the Palestinian territory. -AFP
