i agree with you, they have probably depleted a significant amount of the fajr 5s and fajr 3s. telling me as well, that hamas is somewhat happy they have a cease-fire, because they were running out of their most effective capability. the terms of the cease-fire, particularly as regards egypt's role in upholding this cease-fire, in many ways will determine if they're able to get additional capabilities through the tunnels on the border or from the blockade. so egypt remains an instrumental player, the key player in the entire cease-fire. >> and, ben wedeman, politically for hamas, what does this -- what does the last eight days mean? how much stronger are they now than they were at the start of this violence, vis-a-vis fattah and the palestinian authority and the west bank? >> politically they definitely emerged from it much stronger. i remember that in january 2006, when there were palestinian parliamentary elections, and hamas won, immediately the united states and israel began to impose sanctions on hamas, political and economic sanctions. they have been trying now for the la

and particularly these fajr 5 rockets.w the rockets are getting here, the pipeline through which they are being sent, our executive editor tim lister joins us now with that from atlanta. >> this is how it works according to u.s. officials, egyptian officials, israeli officials. the weapon components start in iran. they come via ship from ports or through flights across iraq, jordan, egypt, and into sudan. some come into khartoum. some to port sudan, the major sudanese port on the red sea. from there, a very long land journey up to the top of sudan, up into egypt, and then across into sinai. sinai may not look like much, but it is the size of west virginia, it is huge, empty, and bedouin smugglers are known to pretty much control the whole territory. the egyptian state doesn't have much to do in sinai. we talked to a bedouin tribal leader yesterday who said they're very clever not to use the highways, the few highways that go across sinai. they let the air down in their tires and cross the deep sand, very often carrying afr