The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister was stopped at the Gaza border with $20 million in cash in his luggage. Mahmoud Zahar had been to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, China, Pakistan, Iran and Egypt on a fund-raising tour in recent weeks.
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