Anti-narcotics police in Rafah governorate in the southern Gaza Strip raided a location on Wednesday 5 August 2009 after a tip and found 20 slabs of hashish. Officers arrested the man found holding the hashish and referred him for investigation.
Anti-narcotics police in Rafah governorate in the southern Gaza Strip arrested a
man they described as a hashish dealer and referred him for investigation.[1]Police said the announcement was made on the morning of Wednesday 5 August 2009.[1]
Anti-narcotics sources said they had received information that a person was
holding hashish at one of the suspicious locations.[1]A force from the
anti-narcotics police went straight to the place and raided it.[1]Officers
found 20 slabs of hashish there.[1]They arrested the person found holding the
hashish and handed him over to investigation.[1]
Photos and video
A person in police uniform holding several rectangular slabs of brown hashish over a table laid out with more slabs, published with the Rafah seizure report. Photo: وكالة الرأي الفلسطينيةPhoto details
No weight was published for the 20 hashish slabs, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
The article does not say where in Rafah governorate the raid took place.
The arrested man is not named, no charges are specified, and no court outcome was reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Arabic and English.
The page photo is a police handout with an empty caption and credit, but it shows hashish slabs laid out and has been checked against the screenshot, so it is linked to this seizure.
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