Spokesman Aslam Shahuan of the Hamas police force in Gaza alleged on Monday that Israeli intelligence sources were trying to corrupt the young generation by distributing chewing gum that arouses one's sexual appetite. The case started when a Gaza resident's daughter felt side effects from the gum.
The police say they have arrested a number of people for distributing the gum. A Gaza drug dealer said he was supplied by Israeli agents near the Karni commercial crossing. Shahuan acknowledges that the gum is also being brought in through the smuggling tunnels between the southern Gaza town of Rafah and the Sinai peninsula.
He added that lately police have caught large amounts of alcohol and other drugs on the bottoms of cars arriving from the area of the Erez Crossing from Israel into northern Gaza. Shahuan added that the owners of the cars say they were helped by Israeli intelligence agents.