Mashaal: Hamas Produces and Smuggles Weapons despite Blockade

Hamas politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal, said his group produces and smuggles weapons despite the Israeli blockade, during a visit to Sudan on Wednesday. “Your brothers in Palestine, despite the blockade and the closing of border passages … despite the fleets from east and west, despite all of this, we buy arms, we manage to produce arms and we smuggle arms,” he said in a recording of a speech to young members of President Omar al-Beshir’s ruling party. The Damascus-based leader of Hamas, who arrived in Khartoum on Tuesday, did not elaborate on the type of arms produced or the suppliers of weapons.