Where do Israel and Hamas get their weapons?

+ Iran's 'Axis of Resistance' US Edition - Today's top story: Where do Israel and Hamas get their weapons? [View in browser]( US Edition | 23 January 2024 [The Conversation] [The Conversation]( Top headlines - [Trauma is being romanticized on TikTok]( - [Kicking off the nominating process with Iowa and New Hampshire is bad for democracy]( - [Tiny water-walking bugs show how microplastics enter the water supply]( Lead story For months, with sadness and horror, I’ve been seeing images and watching video footage of the fighting between Israel and Hamas. With missiles, rockets and artillery shells raining down on fighters and civilians on both sides of the border between Gaza and Israel, I wondered where all those weapons come from. So I reached out to Terrence Guay, an international business scholar at Penn State who studies the global defense industry and the international weapons trade. 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