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AP investigation shows how banned goods are smuggled into Gaza and millions of dollars change hands

AP investigation shows how banned goods are smuggled into Gaza and millions of dollars change hands

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August 20th, 2026

AP investigation shows how banned goods are smuggled into Gaza and millions of dollars change hands

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An AP investigation found that smuggling goods into Gaza has grown a lot.

AP ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ž ์ง€๊ตฌ๋กœ ๋ฌผํ’ˆ์„ ๋ฐ€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋Š˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Israel restricts these goods.

์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฌผํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ์ œํ•œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Palestinians face very high prices, and hospitals buy medicine from smugglers.

ํŒ”๋ ˆ์Šคํƒ€์ธ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์•„์ฃผ ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ณ‘์›๋“ค์€ ๋ฐ€์ˆ˜์—…์ž์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ์•ฝ์„ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The investigation used court documents and talks with traders, truckers, and officials.

๊ทธ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ฒ•์› ๋ฌธ์„œ์™€ ์ƒ์ธ, ํŠธ๋Ÿญ ์šด์ „์‚ฌ, ๊ณต๋ฌด์›๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Cigarettes and tobacco bring the biggest profits.

๋‹ด๋ฐฐ์™€ ์—ฐ์ดˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ด์ต์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But other items are also smuggled, like iPhones, solar panels, fuel, and anesthetics.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ดํฐ, ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ํŒจ๋„, ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ, ๋งˆ์ทจ์ œ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋“ค๋„ ๋ฐ€์ˆ˜๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Israel restricts or bans some goods.

์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์€ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ฌผํ’ˆ์„ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It calls many of them "dual use" items that Hamas militants could use.

์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์€ ๊ทธ์ค‘ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•˜๋งˆ์Šค ๋ฌด์žฅ๋Œ€์›์ด ์“ธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” "์ด์ค‘ ์šฉ๋„" ๋ฌผํ’ˆ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Smuggling rings earn millions of dollars.

๋ฐ€์ˆ˜ ์กฐ์ง์€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฒŒ์–ด๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They pay money to Israeli troops, drivers, and warehouse workers on both sides of the border.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ ์–‘์ชฝ์˜ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜ ๊ตฐ์ธ, ์šด์ „๊ธฐ์‚ฌ, ์ฐฝ๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋™์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋ˆ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Gaza's Hamas-led government also makes money.

๊ฐ€์ž์˜ ํ•˜๋งˆ์Šค ์ •๋ถ€๋„ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It takes a share of smuggled goods, which merchants call "taxing."

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฐ€์ˆ˜ํ’ˆ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ "์„ธ๊ธˆ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Two major traders said they paid $3.5 million and $3.75 million to Hamas authorities.

ํฐ ์ƒ์ธ ๋‘ ๋ช…์€ ํ•˜๋งˆ์Šค ๋‹น๊ตญ์— 350๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ 375๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Two senior Hamas officials said the money pays for social services and salaries.

ํ•˜๋งˆ์Šค ๊ณ ์œ„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋‘ ๋ช…์€ ๊ทธ ๋ˆ์ด ์‚ฌํšŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์™€ ์›”๊ธ‰์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์“ฐ์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They think up to $100 million was collected since the ceasefire.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํœด์ „ ์ดํ›„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Israeli authorities have broken up several smuggling rings.

์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐ€์ˆ˜ ์กฐ์ง์„ ์ ๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They have charged more than a dozen people, including reserve soldiers.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์˜ˆ๋น„๊ตฐ ๋ณ‘์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ํฌํ•จํ•ด 12๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์„ ๊ธฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In one case, a ring reportedly paid a commander about $120,000 to smuggle cigarettes in his vehicle.

ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€์—์„œ, ํ•œ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์ง€ํœ˜๊ด€์—๊ฒŒ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰์— ๋‹ด๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ฐ€๋กœ ์•ฝ 12๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋ถˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

For Gaza residents, prices are extreme.

๊ฐ€์ž ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A vehicle battery can cost over $2,300, compared with $140 before the war.

์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „์Ÿ ์ „ 140๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ 2,300๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Fans that once cost $100 now cost $500.

ํ•œ๋•Œ 100๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€๋˜ ์„ ํ’๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ด์ œ 500๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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