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Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer on Monday warned that the Palestinians would very soon be using more deadly weapons than the mortars.
''I think that in the next few days, perhaps the next few hours, you will be faced with a reality which will be simply difficult to believe -- what it is that we are confronting,'' he told Israeli army radio. ''I think that quite soon we will be passing beyond the stage of the mortar bombs.''
With the huge array of weapons spread out on a dock at the Israeli port of Haifa, Rear Adm. Yedidia Yaari said the weapons were ''capable of changing the balance of forces in our current fighting with the Palestinians.''
The fishing boat set out from Lebanon on Saturday with a cargo of Katyusha rockets, SA-7 anti-aircraft missiles, a variety of mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and land mines, Yaari said.
Yaari said the Lebanese smugglers on the boat were spotted and stopped Saturday by an Israeli naval vessel during a routine patrol.
The weapons were packed in barrels, which were to be left in the Mediterranean Sea at an agreed upon point, and afterward a second boat was to pick them up and deliver them to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, the admiral said.
