Two arrested as Khan Younis police seize 60 hashish slabs in Rafah
Anti-narcotics officers in Khan Younis arrested two men, identified only as R.R. and R.F., in Rafah governorate in the southern Gaza Strip with 60 farsh of hashish they were trying to smuggle into the Strip. The two were held and the case was referred to a police investigation inspector to complete the legal procedures against them; no weight, charges or court outcome were reported.
🇵🇸 Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip · Palestine
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General Department for Combating Drugs, Khan Younis anti-narcotics department
The General Department for Combating Drugs in the Palestinian Police said it
seized 60 farsh of hashish in Rafah governorate, in the southern Gaza Strip.[1]The Khan Younis anti-narcotics department said it arrested two men,
identified only as R.R. and R.F., with 60 farsh of hashish in their possession
as they tried to smuggle it into the Gaza Strip.[1]Officers seized the
quantity of hashish and held the two men, and the case was referred to a police
investigation inspector to complete the legal procedures against them.[1]
Farsh, plural furush, is the unit Gaza’s police use for slabs of hashish.[1]The same account, with the same figures and the same police director, was
published by the Safa news agency on 9 September 2012.[2]
Major Ahmed al-Qadra, head of the General Department for Combating Drugs, said
his department would spare no effort and work day and night against the drug
problem.[1]Al-Qadra said the force would strike with an iron hand at anyone
trading or distributing drugs in the Gaza Strip.[1]
Photos and video
Hashish slabs laid out on a table with a police officer standing beside them, in the photograph published with the Al-Ray report of the 60-slab seizure in Rafah; the page carries no caption or credit.Photo details
The Al-Ray page date line prints 10 تشرين ثاني / سبتمبر 2012, mixing November and September; 10 September 2012 is used because September is printed beside the year, and no separate operation date was given.
Safa published the same account on 9 September 2012, one day earlier, so the operation may have taken place on or before that date.
No weight in kilograms was published for the 60 hashish slabs, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
The two men are identified only by initials, and no charges, detention measure or court outcome were reported.
The accounts do not say where in Rafah governorate the arrest took place or how the hashish was being carried.
A separate Rafah seizure of 60 farsh of hashish from one man, reported on 14 May 2012, is a different operation and is not covered here.
Al-Ray and Safa reproduce the same police statement, so the two accounts are not independent reporting.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in وكالة الرأي الفلسطينية: Major Hussam Shahwan, director of Khan Younis police, praised the anti-narcotics department's work in the governorate to protect society from drugs.
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.
