Israel thwarts an attempt to trade sweet potatoes from Gaza

As part of the routine activities of the inspectors of the Central Inspection and Investigations Unit of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (PIACHO), the inspectors found pallets of 1,750 kg of sweet potatoes in a wholesale market in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem. When inspectors tried to find out who the goods belonged to, the workers at the site rejected it and a close inspection revealed that the source of the goods was in Gaza. The estimate that emerges is that the merchandise arrived across one of the borders to Jerusalem, although it is not clear which one. The sweet potatoes were transferred for destruction. As noted, the identity of the smuggler is currently unknown and therefore the incident is still under investigation to locate him. "By law, the commercialization of agricultural products has a series of threshold conditions for the entry of agricultural products to the country, which include: the obligation to move merchandise in places regulated by ...