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2006 Tulkarm money exchange seizure — This picture handed out by the Israeli Army shows Israeli officers as they count and confiscate money inside a money exchange shop in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm on Sept. 20, 2006. Israeli security forces confiscated more than $1 million dollars during a series of predawn raids on money exchange shops and banks across the West Bank. — Dan Bronfeld/IDF/AFP via Getty Images

RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 23: A Palestinian traveler exchanges money as he waits to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt at the Rafah border crossing November 23, 2005 in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials now have control of the Rafah crossing for the first time in decades after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice successfully brokered a deal on November 15. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to attend an official inauguration ceremony of the crossing on November 25. (Photo by

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