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Calcalist · 2008-07-21
Calcalist reports remarks Omar Shaban made to Al-Arabiya’s economics channel on Gaza’s smuggling tunnels. He estimates that the tunnel industry generates $200–300 million a year and controls about a quarter of the value of goods entering the Strip annually, and argues that this illegal trade has strengthened a black market subject to no commercial law. Smuggling exists everywhere, he notes, but in Gaza the tunnels have become an important part of the economy, which is the problem; the only way to end them is to open the crossings so that goods can enter the Strip in a “natural” way.
Calcalist reports remarks Omar Shaban made to Al-Arabiya’s economics channel on Gaza’s smuggling tunnels. He estimates that the tunnel industry generates $200–300 million a year and controls about a quarter of the value of goods entering the Strip annually, and argues that this illegal trade has st…