{"id":646237,"date":"2026-10-14T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646237\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:00:12","slug":"hamas-payment-demands-prompt-gaza-traders-to-suspend-deliveries-cogat-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646237\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Payment Demands Prompt Gaza Traders To Suspend Deliveries, COGAT Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Hamas is demanding payments from private traders bringing goods into the Gaza Strip, prompting merchants to suspend delivery coordination, according to Israel\u2019s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">In a letter sent to international officials on Wednesday, COGAT chief Maj. Gen. Yoram Halevi said merchants had reported demands of around NIS 10,000 (approximately $3,260) per truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">According to the accounts cited by COGAT, Hamas has threatened traders who refuse to pay and is requiring roughly 30% of goods to be sold for cash to gain control over the proceeds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">COGAT said the practice violates the conditions governing authorized merchants, who are required to conduct transactions through bank transfers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Private traders account for about half of the trucks entering Gaza each week. COGAT said the merchants had suspended coordination of their deliveries until further notice because of Hamas\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Moshe Feiglin: 'all Gazans, including babies, should leave Gaza'\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/api-uploaded\/WILDMOKA_69712815222.jpg\"\/>Moshe Feiglin: &#8216;all Gazans, including babies, should leave Gaza&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The suspension could disrupt supplies entering the enclave, where the ceasefire agreement sets a target of 600 trucks a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">COGAT also said the payment demands extend to secondary traders and could soon affect drinking water supplies. Its allegations are based on reports from merchants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamas is demanding payments from private traders bringing goods into the Gaza Strip, prompting merchants to suspend delivery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-646237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}