 GAZA - Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al Zahar on Wednesday brought suitcases stuffed with $20 million in cash into the Gaza Strip through its border with Egypt, Palestinian officials said.
| Now that's what I call a productive trip. |
Zahar, returning from a fundraising trip for the cash-starved Hamas-led government, was at least the third known Hamas official to make the crossing carrying large sums of cash.
The Rafah border crossing with Egypt is controlled by Palestinian guards nominally loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. Security sources said Zahar had 12 suitcases with him and refused to let anyone open them.
"What's in the bags, Minister?"
"Socks. Dirty socks. Don't open that, you'll be sorry." |
Egyptian border officials informed Abbas’s office that Zahar was carrying $20 million in cash. “We do not have a law that sets a ceiling for the amount of money that can enter the country. We don’t know where that money is going to go,” an Abbas aide said.
| The Widows Ammunition Fund, where else? |
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