Egypt arrests 30 truck drivers 'headed for Gaza'

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CAIRO (AFP) – Egyptian police have seized 30 trucks laden with goods they say were destined to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip and arrested the drivers, a security official told AFP on Wednesday.

The trucks were seized over the past two days as they tried to bring food, consumer goods and home appliances towards the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip, the official said, asking not to be named.

Egypt has the only crossing into Gaza that bypasses Israel, which has kept the isolated territory under a crippling blockade since the Islamist Palestinian Hamas group violently took control there in June 2007.

Goods are routinely smuggled into Gaza via tunnels from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090211/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazaegyptsmuggling

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1. Damned food smugglers!

Good thing they're in jail, now Gazans can sleep well at night.