Tag: smuggling

The meat was unrefrigerated and without veterinary documentation.

“Egypt is able to protect its interests and sovereignty and these will not be surrendered to a group of extremist Israeli leaders seeking to drag the region into a state of conflict,” said the head of Egypt's State Information Services.

Some 20 suspected smugglers converged on the Nitzana commercial crossing, prompting IDF forces to open fire on them.

Israeli intelligence did not know the severity of the smuggling situation before the war.

In recent weeks, Israeli forces intercepted two attempts to smuggle in Iranian explosives.

The explosives were destined for Palestinian terror groups in Judea and Samaria.

Israeli inspectors have foiled numerous attempts to smuggle weapons and military equipment into Gaza since the Hamas terrorist organization seized control over the enclave.

The affair revealed that the security cooperation between Jerusalem and Amman is as viable as it has ever been.

Authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the uranium could have been used to build a so-called dirty bomb, a type of improvised nuclear device, according to reports.

The US said the network used a web of straw companies and fraudulent tactics that include forging documents and invoices to sell oil on the international market and evade sanctions.

The Ministry of Agriculture emphasizes that in order to protect public health, and according to law, it is prohibited to sell animal products from Gaza in Israel because it is not possible to monitor the entire breeding and production chain there.

Navy boats approached the vessel and called on it to halt, and when he did not respond to their calls, the soldiers fired at it in accordance with open fire regulations.

The sanctioned individuals and companies are said to be generating hundreds of millions of dollars for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and Hezbollah.

The smugglers were trying to get the bullets to the northern Shomron region.

The value of the smuggled coins is estimated at about NIS 1.8 million ($540,000).

Three Gazan suspects were arrested when they tried to cross into Egyptian waters; subsequent questioning revealed they were working for Hamas, according to the Israeli Navy.

61 weapons and drugs with a total value of approximately NIS 3,500,000 were seized.

The smugglers with Jordan were caught with a haul of 53 weapons, including 39 handguns, 10 Kalashnikov assault rifles, and four M-16 assault rifles.

Short on cash, Hamas intended to sell the chocolate to finance their terror activities.

The smuggler hid 24 small makeshift mobile phones, 18 SIM cards and four speakers inside his body.

“The combination of advanced technologies and highly trained personnel enabled operational success and allowed us to stop the smugglers.”

Clearly, the entire affair had been about the suspect getting arrested so that he would be able to distribute the contraband phones among six lucky imprisoned terrorists.

Police say the smugglers were paid handsomely: from a few thousand shekels for a miniature cellphone, to the equivalent of $2,255 for a normal-size cellphone, and $4,230 for a smuggled smartphone.

The Hebron based importer, a citizen of the Palestinian Authority, refuses to cooperate with Ashdod Customs.

An Arab merchant was trying to smuggle the coins through the crossing into Israel.

The Shin Bet says operations will continue to block future smuggling of money and materiel by terrorists.

Ghattas was caught smuggling cellphones to convicted terrorists in jail.

Last month Hamas was loathe to acknowledge its diggers working on tunnels under the border with Egypt.

The Defense Ministry's Crossing Authority prevented Hamas from gaining access to countless dual use items in 2016.

MK Basel Ghattas was suspended from participating in Knesset activity for six months, but is still allowed to vote in the Knesset plenum.