Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - It was revealed today, Friday, that Israeli President Isaac Herzog asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin , during a phone conversation that took place between them a few days ago regarding the issue of the Jewish Agency in Moscow, to work to prevent arms smuggling from Russia to the factions . Palestinians through a smuggling route through Syria and Lebanon.

According to what the Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported on Russian media, Herzog told Putin that the Palestinian organizations had received shipments of arms smuggled from Russia unofficially, while Putin replied that these weapons were being smuggled from Ukraine.

According to the same sources, Herzog assured Putin that Israel has intelligence indicating the source and the route that the smuggled weapons take to reach the Palestinian organizations, and demanded that he take steps to close the arms smuggling routes.

She indicated that Putin later held a security discussion with senior officials related to the war on Ukraine, raised the issue of arms smuggling and ordered an investigation into the Israeli allegations, and that if they were true, he requested action to prevent them.

The Israeli President's office denied that the issue had been raised during any contacts.