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Tunisian President Sacks Trade Minister, Sfax Governor

Kais Saied receives Prime Minister Najla Bouden (Tunisian Presidency)
Kais Saied receives Prime Minister Najla Bouden (Tunisian Presidency)
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Tunisian President Sacks Trade Minister, Sfax Governor

Kais Saied receives Prime Minister Najla Bouden (Tunisian Presidency)
Kais Saied receives Prime Minister Najla Bouden (Tunisian Presidency)

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday dismissed the country's minister of trade and export development and the governor of Sfax.

Sfax is the second biggest city in Tunisia.

Without giving further details, the presidency announced in a terse the dismissal of Fadila Al-Rabhi, the minister of trade and export development.

Al-Rabhi was appointed in November 2021 and is the first member of Najla Bouden's government to be removed by Saied.

Saied also removed the governor of Sfax Fakher Fakhfakh from his duties, the statement added.

Fakhfakh was appointed in June 2022.

Sfax, a big industrial city with a one million population, has been witnessing protests since 2021 over the accumulation of garbage on the streets, jeopardizing public health.

The Ukrainian war also impacted Tunisia and led to a hike in the prices of wheat and oil, given that Tunisia imports them in huge quantities.

The political and financial crises during the past months have caused a shortage in basic products such as milk, sugar, rice, and coffee and a relapse in the Tunisians’ purchasing power due to accelerating inflation.

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Netanyahu: Israel Retains Right to Resume Gaza Fighting

FILED - 03 March 2020, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivers an address. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
FILED - 03 March 2020, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivers an address. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
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Netanyahu: Israel Retains Right to Resume Gaza Fighting

FILED - 03 March 2020, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivers an address. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
FILED - 03 March 2020, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivers an address. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa

Israel retains the right to resume war in Gaza with US backing should the second stage of the ceasefire prove pointless, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.

"If we must return to fighting we will do that in new, forceful ways," Netanyahu said in a video statement.

"President (Donald) Trump and President (Joe) Biden have given full backing to Israel's right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile," he said.

The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel will go into effect Sunday at 8:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT), mediator Qatar announced Saturday, as families of hostages held in Gaza braced for news of loved ones, Palestinians prepared to receive freed detainees and humanitarian groups rushed to set up a surge of aid.
The prime minister had warned earlier that a ceasefire wouldn’t go forward unless Israel received the names of hostages to be released, as had been agreed.

The pause in 15 months of war is a step toward ending the deadliest, most destructive fighting ever between Israel and the Hamas militant group — and comes more than a year after the only other ceasefire achieved. The deal was achieved under joint pressure from Trump and the outgoing administration of President Biden ahead of Monday's inauguration.
The first phase of the ceasefire will last 42 days, and negotiations on the far more difficult second phase are meant to begin just over two weeks in. After those six weeks, Israel’s security Cabinet will decide how to proceed.
Israeli airstrikes continued Saturday, and Gaza's Health Ministry said 23 bodies had been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours.