Russian sources said, according to the Israeli website Maariv, that during a joint call this week, Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about Russia’s threat to shut down Jewish Agency operations in the country. She noted that during the conversation, the Herzog informed Putin that “in recent months, Palestinian organizations have unofficially received smuggled arms from Russia.”

According to the same sources, the Russian President replied to Herzog that “weapons did not come to these Palestinian organizations from his country, but from Ukraine, but the Israeli side stated that it had intelligence information indicating the source and route by which the weapons were delivered.” reach the Palestinian organizations.” After that, the Duke appealed to Putin with a call to take measures to block the ways of arms smuggling from Russia to the Palestinian organizations.

The website states that “Putin later held a discussion with senior security officials during which Putin received practical reports related to the war in Russia. During the discussion, Putin raised the issue of arms smuggling to Palestinian organizations and ordered verification of Israel’s claims. If it turns out that they are correct and that the routes of weapons already exist, Putin will ask to work on closing them.”