Strange. If it was a matter of taxes, they could have sold the vegetables, deducted the taxes and expenses of seizure, and given what was left to the truck driver when he got out of jail. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Tis is not a matter involving simple importation of produce. Its a security matter. Even if the present attempt to smuggle vegetables from Gaza was legitimate, the producer/driver would soon be pressured or extorted by the Muslim Brotherhood to convert the truck into a drive-able bomb, or smuggle IEDs into Israel for use against innocent people.
This is not the fault of Israel, but the fault of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the criminal syndicate that calls itself representative of the Palestinians in Gaza, when in fact they are a terrorist organization which refuses to recognize Israel as a Nation.
I applaud the security that Israel has on its borders. I wish we had the same on our Southern border to combat the human slave trade and the barrage of smuggled drugs into our cities via the drug cartels.
A vegetable does not change the fact that the primary function of any border needs to be security.
There’s produce being exported and imported from Ghaza all the time. They have a three-star hotel in Ghaza, where all the journalists and NGO people stay. It might have been a nice place to live if Hamas wasn’t there. But the trucks are generally not used for bombs. Blowing yourself up is one thing. But destroying commerce so that everyone’s starving is something even Hamas wouldn’t dare do.