A Palestine Arab, Mohammed Yunis, charged with dope smuggling, admitted in a Cairo court today that he was in Egypt to purchase arms for Arabs in Palestine.
Police on the Palestine-Egypt border were reinforced recently as a result of increased attempts by Arabs to smuggle arms into Palestine.
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