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There's
no KFC in the Gaza strip, a 140-square mile coastal strip 1.7 million
Palestinians call home, but that doesn't mean that you can't get the
Colonel's finger lickin' good chicken there.Where there's a will, there's a way - and by way, we mean smuggling tunnels:
...
after Mr. Efrangi brought some KFC back from El Arish for friends last
month, he was flooded with requests. A new business was born. [...]
...
whenever there is a critical mass of orders — usually 30 — he starts a
complicated process of telephone calls, wire transfers and coordination
with the Hamas government to get the chicken from there to here.
The
other day, after Mr. Efrangi called in 15 orders and wired the payment
to the restaurant in El Arish, an Egyptian taxi driver picked up the
food. On the other side of the border, meanwhile, Ramzi al-Nabih, a
Palestinian cabdriver, arrived at the Hamas checkpoint in Rafah, where
the guards recognized him as “the Kentucky guy.”
From
the checkpoint, Mr. Nabih, 26, called his Egyptian counterpart and told
him which of the scores of tunnels the Hamas official had cleared for
the food delivery. He first waited near the shaft of the tunnel, but
after a while he was lowered on a lift about 30 feet underground and
walked halfway down the 650-foot path to meet two Egyptian boys who were
pushing the boxes and buckets of food, wrapped in plastic, on a cart.
Mr.
Nabih gave the boys about $16.50, and argued with them for a few
minutes over a tip. A half-hour later, the food was loaded into the
trunk and on the back seat of his Hyundai taxi, bound for Gaza City.
Fares Akram explains how one smuggles KFC from Egypt into Gaza in this story over at
The New York Times
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