Mediocrates
05-25-2010, 04:03 AM
http://blog.dailyalert.org/2010/05/24/gaza-faces-supply-glut-from-smuggled-goods/
The prices of many smuggled goods have fallen in recent months, thanks to a supply glut. Tunnels have become so efficient that shops all over Gaza are bursting with goods.
Coca-Cola, Nescafe, Snickers and Heinz ketchup are both cheap and widely available. Tunnel operators have also flooded Gaza with Korean refrigerators, German food mixers and Chinese air conditioning units. “Everything I demand, I can get,†says Abu Amar al-Kahlout, who sells household goods out of a warehouse big enough to accommodate a passenger jet.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/05/siege-news.html
Israel, has allowed construction material into Gaza for the second day in a row.
Yesterday, truckloads of cement (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286575) and iron bars entered Gaza. Today, more truckloads (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286892) of unspecified "building materials" are coming in.
The amount of cement that Israel is quietly sending into Gaza in two days is roughly the same amount that the Free Gaza movement is noisily planning to bring into Gaza whenever they manage to get their ships coordinated. The difference is that Israel is coordinating with UNRWA to ensure that the cement is used for real building projects; Free Gaza's is going to go directly towards Hamas weapons bunkers.
Is anyone interested in asking a question on their Facebook wall (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2365573794&v=wall)as to whether, given Hamas being democratically elected, they support Hamas' unlimited import of weapons into Gaza like any other state?
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286892
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286575
The goods, estimated to be 118 to 128 truckloads for the commercial and agricultural sectors and limited amounts of industrial diesel and domestic-use gas will enter through a single crossing, Kerem Shalom, located at the southeastern tip of the coastal enclave.
Through the northern crossing, 137 truckloads of wheat and animal feed are set to enter the former bulk goods crossing, as well as 15 trucks of crushed stones for further UNRWA construction projects.
The prices of many smuggled goods have fallen in recent months, thanks to a supply glut. Tunnels have become so efficient that shops all over Gaza are bursting with goods.
Coca-Cola, Nescafe, Snickers and Heinz ketchup are both cheap and widely available. Tunnel operators have also flooded Gaza with Korean refrigerators, German food mixers and Chinese air conditioning units. “Everything I demand, I can get,†says Abu Amar al-Kahlout, who sells household goods out of a warehouse big enough to accommodate a passenger jet.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/05/siege-news.html
Israel, has allowed construction material into Gaza for the second day in a row.
Yesterday, truckloads of cement (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286575) and iron bars entered Gaza. Today, more truckloads (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286892) of unspecified "building materials" are coming in.
The amount of cement that Israel is quietly sending into Gaza in two days is roughly the same amount that the Free Gaza movement is noisily planning to bring into Gaza whenever they manage to get their ships coordinated. The difference is that Israel is coordinating with UNRWA to ensure that the cement is used for real building projects; Free Gaza's is going to go directly towards Hamas weapons bunkers.
Is anyone interested in asking a question on their Facebook wall (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2365573794&v=wall)as to whether, given Hamas being democratically elected, they support Hamas' unlimited import of weapons into Gaza like any other state?
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286892
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286575
The goods, estimated to be 118 to 128 truckloads for the commercial and agricultural sectors and limited amounts of industrial diesel and domestic-use gas will enter through a single crossing, Kerem Shalom, located at the southeastern tip of the coastal enclave.
Through the northern crossing, 137 truckloads of wheat and animal feed are set to enter the former bulk goods crossing, as well as 15 trucks of crushed stones for further UNRWA construction projects.