Media coverage
Ynetnews · 2009-10-09
Reporting that the Hamas government offered Gazans who had put money into smuggling tunnels – later destroyed in Israeli air strikes – a repayment of only 16.5% of their investment, the article quotes Omar Shaban, director of the Gaza economic research institute Pal-Think. Comparing the scale of Gaza’s dependence on the tunnels with the US economy, he says: “I assure you that our scandal is much worse than Madoff.”
Reporting that the Hamas government offered Gazans who had put money into smuggling tunnels – later destroyed in Israeli air strikes – a repayment of only 16.5% of their investment, the article quotes Omar Shaban, director of the Gaza economic research institute Pal-Think. Comparing the scale of Ga…