Smugglers find new ways to bring drugs into Gaza
Smugglers in the Gaza Strip are using new and unconventional methods to bring in narcotics hidden inside various goods, as local authorities struggle to stop them amid lack of equipment due to the Israeli siege.
Using new and unconventional methods, drug dealers in the Gaza Strip are becoming more active in bringing narcotics of all kinds and forms into the coastal enclave by smuggling them inside medical ointments, shoes, clothes, fruit, fish, potato chip bags and other goods, which makes their discovery by security forces difficult.
Smugglers have always used innovative and new methods to smuggle drugs into the Gaza Strip. In 2017, 321 hashish packs were seized by Gazan authorities in Rafah after they were found in containers packed with Nile tilapia fish coming from Egypt.
Most recently, on Oct. 20, the Anti-Narcotics Department in Gaza announced that it had thwarted a narcotics smuggling attempt through the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip hidden inside a clothes shipment. When searching the shipment, 4,000 Captagon pills were seized.
On Feb. 9, the Crossings and Ports Unit of the Anti-Narcotics Department foiled another attempt to smuggle narcotics hidden in shoe soles into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing.
