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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Wednesday that the real motivation behind plans to send blockade-busting ships toward Gaza is to allow free flow of weapons into the Palestinian territory.

Netanyahu spoke as preparations were under way to send several ships carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists toward Gaza, setting up potential confrontations at sea.

On May 31, Israeli naval commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists in clashes aboard a Turkish ship headed for Gaza, setting off a world outcry and forcing Israel to ease its three-year-old blockade.

Israel already has warned archenemy Iran to drop its plan to send a blockade-busting ship to Gaza. The Iranian ship is one of several that activists say will head for Gaza in the next few months. One is said to be heading for Gaza from Lebanon within days.

On Wednesday, Lebanon warned that it would hold Israel responsible for any further attacks on blockade-busting ships.

Netanyahu said his government is drawing up a list of weapons and items with military uses that will not be allowed into Gaza "so that we can permit all the rest."

He said the new list will be made public "in the coming days."

Since the violent 2007 takeover of Gaza by Hamas - an Islamic militant group responsible for firing thousands of rockets at Israeli border communities - Israel has let in only limited humanitarian supplies, including basic foods and medicine.

Construction materials, which Israel maintains Hamas could use to make weapons and build bunkers, were barred, and the vast majority of Gaza's 1.5 million people could not travel. The blockade strangled the already poor territory's economy but failed to undermine Hamas, one of the blockade's main goals.

Under Israel's new policy, approved Sunday, "Anyone who wants to bring products can do so - food, toys, medicines, anything," Netanyahu said Wednesday at his Jerusalem office, where he was meeting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann.

Israel insists that all cargo from the flotillas must be inspected at one of its ports to remove weapons, and then the aid supplies would be transferred over land to Gaza. Flotilla organizers have rejected this procedure, prompting Israel to take control of the boats at sea and bring them to Ashdod port.

The May 31 flotilla was made up of six ships, and violence erupted on only one of them. Israel says its commandos were attacked with iron bars, clubs and knives and opened fire in self-defense.

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Ankara: The Turkish army has begun using Israeli-made unmanned aircraft to monitor Kurdish rebel movements in neighbouring Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday, quoting the army chief.

"In the past 10 days, we have started using our Heron systems... the surveillance systems we bought from Israel, in the north of Iraq," General Ilker Basbug said in Canakkale, northwestern Turkey, according to Anatolia.

The drones are being used "at a certain distance in the north of Iraq in coordination with the Americans," Basbug told reporters, adding that the aircraft were operated "by our own personnel."

There has been media speculation that the drones were idle because Israeli operators left Turkey amid the crisis between the two countries over Israel's May 31 raid on Gaza-bound aid ships, in which nine Turks were killed.

The Turkish army is fighting surging violence by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which uses rear bases in neighbouring northern Iraq as a launching pad for attacks against Turkish targets across the border.

Twelve soldiers were killed in PKK attacks over the weekend, most of them when rebels assaulted a border unit at the Iraqi frontier early Saturday.

Basbug played down suggestions that an intelligence failure had led to the attack, which prompted a Turkish air raid on PKK hideouts in Iraq.

As part of the overall planning for the Norwegian Armed Forces, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is also responsible for the planning of the military’s materiel investments.

FANAF 2010-2017 does not, for various reasons, provide information about projects that cannot be made public. This may include, for example, plans that are covered by the Norwegian Security Act and are therefore kept from public access.

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Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland - In the case of a foreign military sale to work, U.S. Navy, the French army in France, the first antenna is used to trigger an event with fire-163A Coyote Supersonic GQM Sea Skimming Target (SSST), or a missile, April 4.

As part of a foreign military sales case, the U.S. Navy's GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea Skimming Target is launched from the Mediterranean island of Levant during a live-fire presentation April 4
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Military service in France, markets Directorate General for Arms (DGA), has worked with the salt air of goals and programs of the Office of bait (PMA-208) and Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) Chandler, Arizona GQM-163A proposal SSST Concert at military firing range off the coast of France.

Foreign Military Sales case, which began in 2006, SSST, including the provision of GQM-163A, equipment