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Article: Israeli Navy likely to Operate on Aegean Sea
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 24, 1995
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In the foreseeable future, the Israeli navy may have to patrol
Israel's commercial maritime routes, thus rendering the Aegean Sea
the next possible theater of operations, reported The Jerusalem Post
today.
Navy Commander Ami Ayalon told reporters on board the new Eilat
Saar-5 missile boat off the coast of the Gaza Strip yesterday, that
hostile North African navies may try to hinder maritime traffic to
and from Israel.
"That means it is in the navy's interest to sail these routes and
that implies that naval battles may develop in the Aegean," he said.
The Eilat, one of three U.S.-built Saar-5s the navy received in
1993 and 1994, ...