JERUSALEM [MENL] -- Israel has determined that the bolstered Egyptian police presence has not stemmed the flow of weapons and ammunition from the Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip.

Israeli officials said the military has detected a steady flow of weapons from the Sinai to the Gaza Strip. They said that nearly every night boxes of weapons and components were smuggled over the 14-kilometer Egypt-Gaza border.

"It's no longer a massive flow," an official said. "But it's a steady flow and much greater than what it used to be during our presence along the border."

Israel has complained several times both to Egypt and the United States of the continued weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip. The complaints have included reports that the smugglers were also bringing in weapons through the Mediterranean Sea.