Hebron police burned about three tons of marijuana seized over several months, in what the district governorate called the biggest drug destruction operation yet in Palestine.
Hebron police set fire to about three tons of marijuana on Monday morning, destroying cannabis seized in an operation that ran over the previous several months.[1]The Hebron District Governorate called it the biggest drug destruction operation in Palestine to date, saying it resulted from months of police work.[2]
Potent stock and politics
Raid Dudin, who heads the Hebron police drug unit, said the destroyed marijuana was some 30 times stronger than regular marijuana, without saying how its strength was measured.[1]District Governor Kamel Hamid praised the police and urged joint action against what he described as attempts to destabilise Palestinian society through drugs.[1][2]
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Palestinian police in Tulkarm Governorate said they found seven slabs of hashish weighing 700 grams and 399 ecstasy pills hidden in farmland, meant for sale in Tulkarm city. No arrests were announced in the police statement.
The PA anti-narcotics police seized 230 slabs of hashish weighing 23 kg in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, worth more than 500,000 shekels. Police said the haul was meant for distribution in several governorates and some for smuggling across the border; no arrests were announced in the first statement.
Gaza's anti-narcotics police raided a home in Zeitoun, south of Gaza City, and seized 21 slabs of hashish, 317 Rotana pills, five marijuana plants, a rifle and ammunition. Two suspects were arrested; the police said drug flows into Gaza had risen since the war.
Anti-narcotics police seized 100 hashish slabs weighing 10 kilograms from a warehouse with an underground storage tunnel in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron. The warehouse owner, described as a major Hebron drug dealer, fled and police were still working to arrest him.
