Blair says Gaza cease-fire must stop smuggling

JERUSALEM (CNN) - Any cease-fire in the Gaza conflict will require "clear and definitive action" to halt the smuggling of weapons and money into the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday.

"If there is strong action on that front, so that Israel feels it has achieved something - namely the end of the smuggling of weapons and finance to Hamas - then I think it is possible to resolve this reasonably quickly," Blair told CNN. "If that doesn't happen, if we're not in that position, then obviously it's going to go on."

Blair is now the envoy of the Mideast Quartet, whose members - the United Nations, United States, Russia and the European Union - are attempting to find a resolution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is one of several European officials now in the region in an effort to bring an end to the Israeli campaign against Gaza.