SUDAN CALLS ONTHE UNTO CONDEMN ISRAEL
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct 25, - Sudan called on the UN Security Council to condemn Israel for what its envoy, Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman, called “a blatant violation of the concept of peace and security” and the UN charter.
The cabinet met in urgent session late Wednesday after the government said evidence pointed to Israeli involvement in the alleged attack at around midnight Tuesday on the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility in southern Khartoum. Sudan accused the Jewish state of a similar raid 18 months ago.
Israeli officials have expressed concern about arms smuggling through Sudan and have long accused Khartoum of serving as a base of support for militants from the Islamist Hamas movement.
Israel refused all com-
The cabinet met in urgent session late Wednesday after the government said evidence pointed to Israeli involvement
ment on the Khartoum allegations, but Amos Gilad, a top Israeli defence official, called Sudan “a dangerous terrorist state.” Gilad, director of policy and political-military affairs at the defence ministry, refused to reply directly when asked whether Israel was involved in the attack, which Sudan said was conducted by four radar-evading aircraft.
“The regime is supported by Iran and it serves as a route for the transfer, via Egyptian territory, of Iranian weapons to Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists,” he told his country's army radio on Thursday.