Hamas warns leaders against purchasing Israeli-imported cars

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Tue, 26 Oct 2010

Gaza City - Hamas has warned its members against buying cars imported via Israel without first undergoing thorough scrutiny checks, officials confirmed Tuesday.

The cars could have tracking devices or be booby-trapped, according to the radical Islamist movement which rules Gaza.

Gaza's Interior Ministry sent a note with the warning to officials in the de-facto Hamas government as well as to other Hamas leaders and to those of other factions, a security official said Tuesday.

Any car purchased via Israel should undergo a thorough test at a special garage before it was used, it said.

Hamas Interior Ministry spokesman Ihab al-Ghussein confirmed the note.

Importing cars into Gaza via Israel has only recently resumed for the first time in four years, when Israel in June eased a near-total blockade on Gaza.

Israel made the concession after it came under heavy international pressure following a May 31 Israeli naval attack on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which had declared it would attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian coastal enclave.

Israeli naval commandos shot dead nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists, after they were taken by surprise by a rioting crowd.

Over the past month alone, some 180 cars have been imported into Gaza by Palestinian car dealers via Israel, most of them South Korean, German and Japanese.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/350451,leaders-purchasing-israeli-imported-cars.html.