Palestinian factories closed after selling fake masks and sanitizer

The Palestinian Authority has closed several factories and businesses that were selling make-believe protection from the coronavirus in the form of useless face masks and hand sanitizers.

Over 40 Palestinian suspects were arrested on charges of fraud, price gouging and manufacturing unlicensed crap, a PA Ministry of National Economy official said, although he phrased it differently and in Arabic, and Palestine isn't a nation.

The crackdown finally came after complaints from numerous Palestinians that the products were crap and did not meet the standards and regulations of the PA Ministry of Health and Ministry of National Economy, the official said, although they did not phrase it so boldly.

The useless masks and sanitizers were being sold at inflated prices to thousands of anxious Palestinian consumers unwilling to die for the cause.

“Most of the products carried fake labels indicating they had been approved by the Ministry of Health,” Mohammed Nabil, a pharmacist from Hebron, said. “We were not aware that the face masks and hand sanitizers were fake until health officials and policemen raided our pharmacy and confiscated the gel bottles and masks.”

And if you believe that, Mo has some anti-virus vaccine to sell you.

Ashraf Abu Khalaf, an official with the PA Ministry of Health, warned that some unscrupulous scumbags were exploiting the panic over the virus to make illegal profits. “We won’t hesitate to take strict measures against those behind this ugly and disturbing phenomenon,” he said.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, Palestinian security officers and representatives of the PA Ministry of National Economy [which is an oxymoron] closed two tailoring factories in Nablus and the nearby town of Salfit after discovering they were manufacturing unlicensed face masks. They also confiscated and destroyed thousands of unlicensed masks and hand sanitizer bottles from dozens of shops and pharmacies in the Nablus area.

It seems as though the Palestinians are their own worst enemies.

In Hebron, five tailoring factories were closed over the past several days after they were also caught producing unlicensed useless face masks intended to pretend they would prevent the spread of the virus, and would have been as effective as licking a holy shrine in the town square.

Maher al-Qaisi, a senior official with the PA Ministry of National Economy, said the masks that were seized in the factories did not meet the conditions required for obtaining a manufacturing license, and were as useless as teats on a bull.



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