A $63 million cigarette seizure highlights the lucrative business of smuggling goods into Gaza
Haaretz · Hagai Amit ·
In the last two weeks, five attempts to smuggle cigarettes were seized at crossings between Egypt and Israel. Hamas vowed to stop taxing imports to Gaza, which profited them millions of shekels monthly, after local merchants striked
At least eight containers arriving from Egypt and labeled as containing flour were seized Tuesday at Ashdod Port after Israeli customs found hundreds of thousands of cigarette packs, worth over $63 million, concealed within them.
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In the last two weeks, five attempts to smuggle cigarettes were seized at crossings between Egypt and Israel. Hamas vowed to stop taxing imports to Gaza, which profited them millions of shekels monthly, after local merchants striked