Two Israeli warships passed through Egypt's Suez Canal on Tuesday heading to the Red Sea on a mission to stop arms smuggling to Palestinian-ruled Gaza, sources said.
A Suez Canal Authority source named the warships as the Eilat and Hanit and said the Hanit had passed through the canal twice in June.
"This is part of an Israeli effort to stop arms smuggling to Gaza," a security source, who declined to be identified by name or nationality, told Reuters.