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title: "Prices soar as Gaza smuggling booms"
description: "Most outlets led with the rise in prices due to smuggling and the accusation that officials, soldiers, and middlemen are profiting. Arab News Pakistan added context about the specific items being smuggled and the role of Israeli soldiers, while Dunya News included a brief note about the AP’s policy on anonymous sources."
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# Prices soar as Gaza smuggling booms

world · latest filing 21 Aug 2026, 2:08 PM PKT · 20–21 Aug 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets led with the rise in prices due to smuggling and the accusation that officials, soldiers, and middlemen are profiting. Arab News Pakistan added context about the specific items being smuggled and the role of Israeli soldiers, while Dunya News included a brief note about the AP’s policy on anonymous sources.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Arab News Pakistan** — [Prices soar as Gaza smuggling booms. Officials, soldiers and middlemen are accused of cashing in](https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2655373/middle-east) · 21 Aug 2026, 2:08 PM PKT
  > CAIRO: Palestinians face inflated prices for groceries and batteries, hospitals have turned to smugglers for medicine and equipment, Israeli soldiers and other middlemen are accused of pocketing millions of dollars, and the Hamas-led government takes a cut as the smuggling of goods restricted by Israel into the Gaza Strip has boomed, according to an Associated Press investigation based on court...
- **Dunya News** — [Prices soar as Gaza smuggling booms. Officials, soldiers and middlemen are accused of cashing in](https://dunyanews.tv/en/World/968896-prices-soar-as-gaza-smuggling-booms-officials-soldiers-and-middlemen) · 20 Aug 2026, 6:53 PM PKT · 87% identical wording to the newest filing
  > The AP only uses anonymous sources when the information is vital to the news report and not opinion or speculation.

2 articles from 2 outlets, 20–21 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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