Story highlights Interior Ministry says the cell shipped supplies, money, firearms to Syria and Iraq disguised as humanitarian aid

Leader of cell was in constant contact with an ISIS member, ministry statement says

(CNN) Spanish police on Sunday arrested seven people suspected of sending guns and bombmaking materials disguised as humanitarian aid to terrorists in Syria and Iraq, according to the country's Interior Ministry.

The anti-terror operation was carried out in the Spanish cities of Alicante and Valencia and in the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta in North Africa, the ministry said in a statement.

The seven detained were part of a cell which was providing logistical support to ISIS and the al Nusra Front in Syria, according to the statement.

That logistical support included shipping military supplies, money, and electronic and communications equipment, the statement said. The cell also shipped firearms and precursor materials used in manufacturing explosives, it said.

Spanish authorities said the supplies were packaged to look like humanitarian aid and then shipped from Spanish ports to Syria and Iraq.

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