JERUSALEM: Most rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip last year were made of pipes smuggled from the Jewish state, an Israeli police spokesman said on Sunday.

Micky Rosenfeld, spokesman for the national police, said security agents had arrested a Gaza man last month suspected of purchasing pipes and other metal products from Israeli companies and selling them to militants for making rockets and shoulder-launched missiles.

The suspect, Amar Zak, 36, a metal merchant who worked at the Karni commercial crossing between Israel and Gaza, allegedly supplied piping to workshops in Gaza “whose owners he knew were involved in manufacturing weapons from Hamas”, Rosenfeld said.—Reuters