KHARTOUM — The political supremo of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, said his group produces and smuggles weapons, 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.
An air raid by foreign aircraft on a convoy of trucks in eastern Sudan in January killed 119 people, the country's news agency Suna reported in May, giving an official death toll for the first time.
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