200 hashish slabs seized in North Gaza; three dealers held
North Gaza anti-narcotics officers seized 200 slabs of hashish in a four-day operation, starting with 51 slabs from one dealer who led them to two others. The officer in charge valued the haul at $250,000 and called it the first seizure of that size in the northern governorate.
The anti-narcotics department seized a large quantity of drugs in North Gaza
Governorate on the evening of Friday 10 July 2009.[1]First Lieutenant Munir
Musbah of the anti-narcotics department put the seizure at 200 farsh of hashish,
with farsh used as the unit for slabs of hashish.[1]
Musbah valued the 200 slabs at 250,000 dollars.[1]The operation began when
officers seized 51 slabs in the possession of one dealer.[1]During
questioning that dealer guided anti-narcotics officers to two other dealers, in
whose possession officers seized the remainder of the quantity, making three
dealers caught in total.[1]
The operation lasted four days from the arrest of the first dealer and passed
through stages of planning, surveillance and execution.[1]The account
describes this as the first seizure of this size in the North governorate.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight was published for the 200 hashish slabs, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
The three dealers were not named, and no charges or court outcome were reported.
Only this Al-Ray account of the event could be opened, so the figures rest on the anti-narcotics department's account.
The page date line prints both November and July 2009, but 10 July 2009 is used because the text dates the seizure to the evening of Friday 10/07/2009, and that date was a Friday.
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.
