Media coverage
ynet (עברית) · 2025-07-11
Ynet, relaying an Associated Press report, describes how cash became a scarce commodity in wartime Gaza: with banks and ATMs shut, residents depend on cash traders whose commissions have risen from about 5% at the start of the war to nearly 40%, while worn banknotes are refused and repairing them has become a trade of its own. Omar Shaban, head of the Gaza think tank PalThink, says the war “has made everything dark” and that “you don’t know who brings cigarettes into Gaza”: “it’s like a mafia”. In his view the same resilient merchants are probably both running the cash trade and supplying basic goods, and “they profit from these commissions”.
Ynet, relaying an Associated Press report, describes how cash became a scarce commodity in wartime Gaza: with banks and ATMs shut, residents depend on cash traders whose commissions have risen from about 5% at the start of the war to nearly 40%, while worn banknotes are refused and repairing them h…