{"id":257232,"date":"2026-08-20T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257232\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:49:08","slug":"ap-investigation-shows-how-banned-goods-are-smuggled-into-gaza-and-millions-of-dollars-change-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257232\/","title":{"rendered":"AP investigation shows how banned goods are smuggled into Gaza and millions of dollars change hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OH2TR4FCUJDRDFRRPUJDZKETSU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">CAIRO \u2014 Palestinians face inflated prices for groceries and batteries, hospitals have turned to smugglers for medicine and equipment, and Israeli soldiers and other middlemen are accused of pocketing millions of dollars as the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/1364a2673acfeaa00f853033f45e259e?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smuggling of goods<\/a> restricted <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Israel<\/a> into <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gaza-israel-war-kushner-talks-trump-netanyahu-8c8741e238c72bcbc45e1647afbde206\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Gaza Strip<\/a> has boomed, according to an Associated Press investigation based on court documents and interviews with traders, truckers and officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAIRO \u2014 Palestinians face inflated prices for groceries and batteries, hospitals have turned to smugglers for medicine and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[2371,328,197,2437,37,16620,70980,82],"class_list":["post-257232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-inc","tag-israel","tag-meta-platforms","tag-ml-gaza-smuggling","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117126506928158592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}