How this group is fighting corruption in Gaza - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Iyad Qatrawi

Iyad Qatrawi

Aug 12, 2016

A Palestinian tunnel worker uses his mobile as he rests inside a smuggling tunnel beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip July 19, 2013. The Islamist group Hamas appealed to Egypt's new rulers on Thursday not to pursue its destruction of smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip, warning they risked throttling the small Palestinian territory. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX11ROK — A Palestinian tunnel worker uses his cellphone as he rests inside a smuggling tunnel beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip, July 19, 2013. — REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafat

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Palestinian protesters hold signs that read in Arabic "Corruption is the reason for high cost of living" and "High prices and low wages are the policies of the government" during a protest against the high cost of living in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 11, 2012. Palestinain prime minister Salam Fayyad announced cuts to fuel prices and VAT after more than a week of protests across the West Bank over the spiralling cost of living. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MO

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Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas speaks during a meeting of Fatah's central committee and the Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO) executive committee in the city of Ramallah in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on May 13, 2012, a day after Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu sent his response to a letter from Abbas on the stalled peace process. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/GettyImages)

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Protesters walk during a peaceful protest calling for the elimination of corruption and bribery outside the presidential palace in Carthage in Tunis August 16, 2012. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi (TUNISIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR36WRZ

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