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Gaza exports into Israel resume days after attempted explosives smuggling
2023-09-11
[IsraelTimes] IDF closed trade route last week in response to attempt to transfer ’high-quality explosives’ hidden in clothing shipment

Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip exports to Israel resumed Sunday, Paleostinian and Israeli officials said, days after exports were suspended following an alleged attempt to smuggle explosives from the coastal enclave.

On Monday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi ordered a halt to commercial deliveries from Gaza to Israel after several kilograms of "high-quality" kaboom were found hidden in a shipment of clothes. The move was approved by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

On Sunday morning, exports were once again allowed through the Kerem Shalom gateway, said Raed Fattouh, head of the Presidential Committee for the Coordination of Goods, which is affiliated with Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s Fatah party.

"Several trucks, including one loaded with readymade clothes and others loaded with scrap iron, entered the crossing this morning and headed toward the Israeli side," he told AFP.

According to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the body that runs civilian affairs in the Paleostinian territories, exports were allowed into Israel on Sunday at 6 a.m. "following the conclusion of a security assessment."

"The defense establishment will not allow terror elements to take advantage of the civilian and humanitarian channel in the Gaza Strip for the needs of military force buildup and acts of terror," the ministry and COGAT said.

The Defense Ministry said that according to initial assessments, the explosives were intended to be used for terror activity in the West Bank.

The Kerem Shalom crossing is the only point of entry for goods between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Related:
Kerem Shalom: 2023-09-05 Israeli citizens caught smuggling explosives from Jordan for Islamic Jihad
Kerem Shalom: 2023-05-15 Israel reopens Gaza crossings, shut since launch of Operation Shield and Arrow
Kerem Shalom: 2023-05-13 Palestinian militants fire rockets toward Jerusalem
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