The price of bullets in Gaza
Charles at
Little Green Footballs links to a short news item in
JTA:
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Deep trouble for weapons smugglers
Gaza Strip arms prices reportedly have spiked since Israel began cracking down on weapons-smuggling tunnels.
bq. Ha’aretz reported Tuesday that a contraband AK-47 bullet, which cost just more than $1 before the start of the intifada in September 2000 now goes for five times as much in Gaza. Israeli authorities monitor such inflation as a gauge of the army’s success in uncovering tunnels in Rafah, which lies on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt.
Awwwww... Maybe we should take up a collection...
Posted by DaveH at May 25, 2004 2:22 PM