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Photo: AP A line of Israeli trucks waits on the Israeli side of the Karni cargo crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, 19 Mar 2007 (file photo)<\/p>\n
A U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks says Israeli officials charged extremely high fees to allow goods to enter into Gaza.<\/p>\n
The diplomatic cable from 2006 says American companies complained they had to pay fees up to 75 times higher than normal.<\/p>\n
The diplomatic cable was published Thursday in Norway’s Aftenposten<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n The alleged corruption took place at the Karni crossing, a major entry point into Gaza.<\/p>\n The document says U.S. companies who made the charges included Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, Phillip Morris, Hewlett Packard and Motorola.<\/p>\n The cable says a Coca-Cola distributor said he was asked to pay as much as $3,300 per truckload passing through the Karni crossing.<\/p>\n The document was based on information provided by the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo: AP A line of Israeli trucks waits on the Israeli side of the Karni cargo crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, 19 Mar 2007 (file photo)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"zakra_page_container_layout":"customizer","zakra_page_sidebar_layout":"customizer","zakra_remove_content_margin":false,"zakra_sidebar":"customizer","zakra_transparent_header":"customizer","zakra_logo":0,"zakra_main_header_style":"default","zakra_menu_item_color":"","zakra_menu_item_hover_color":"","zakra_menu_item_active_color":"","zakra_menu_active_style":"","zakra_page_header":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uutiset"],"yoast_head":"\n