Egyptian security forces seized four arms caches in Sinai containing anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank mines which they suspected were going to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip, a security source said on Sunday.
Smugglers operate from the Sinai Peninsula which borders both Gaza and Israel, using the area as a base to ferry weapons into the Palestinian enclave and Israeli territory. Security forces confiscated the missiles, which were left over from past Arab-Israeli wars, the source said.
Egypt has stepped up security in the mountainous Sinai region since a series of bombings in Sinai resorts carried out between 2004 and 2006.