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[00:11:35] We have reached the end of our segment from Jordan. We will meet you again
[00:11:38] soon, God willing. Viewers, welcome
[00:11:43] Israeli newspapers with the expert on Israeli
[00:11:47] affairs, colleague Faiq Abbas. Good
[00:11:49] morning. Good morning,
[00:11:53] Amor,
[00:12:05] Farah, and good morning to the dear
[00:12:08] viewers.
[00:12:10] The urgent issue of the judge at the International Criminal Court,
[00:12:14] the South African judge
[00:12:18] who won the Nobel Peace Prize, is causing concern
[00:12:21] in Israel, and Israel is attacking
[00:12:26] the committee, of course,
[00:12:29] for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize
[00:12:32] to this judge.
[00:12:35] The reason, they claim in Israel, is
[00:12:40] for Israel that she received
[00:12:43] the award. But practically, there are those who warn
[00:12:47] that this person
[00:12:49] the award is a warning
[00:12:53] to Israel. Yedioth
[00:12:56] Ahronoth's main headline, with a picture
[00:12:59] of the judge, is "Nobel Prize
[00:13:02] for Hypocrisy." This is what
[00:13:06] the report, as you can see in the picture.
[00:13:09] The report that
[00:13:11] Pillay
[00:13:13] submitted to the Security Council after October
[00:13:17] 7th mentioned
[00:13:20] 277 times that Israel
[00:13:23] is carrying out genocide. Hamas was not
[00:13:27] mentioned even once, not a single word
[00:13:31] of terrorism. The South African legal
[00:13:34] expert receives the Nobel Peace
[00:13:36] Prize for one reason,
[00:13:40] which is her hatred
[00:13:42] for Israel. This committee
[00:13:46] that decides who receives this award,
[00:13:49] Israel has never attacked this committee before, but
[00:13:53] this time,
[00:13:56] because of her hatred
[00:13:59] for Israel, this is a moment of degradation
[00:14:03] for the international community, and not just
[00:14:07] for Israel.
[00:14:10] Goebbels, Yani writes
[00:14:13] under Rimmini in the main headline. Goebbels was
[00:14:17] the propaganda minister, today's information
[00:14:20] minister, as they called him during Nazi
[00:14:23] Germany with Hitler.
[00:14:26] And his slogan was, "Lie a lie until
[00:14:29] you yourself believe it." Who
[00:14:33] is lying today? Among all the world
[00:14:36] leaders, it is known
[00:14:40] who. But this is not, of course.
[00:14:44] And Rimmini adds that Pillay
[00:14:47] received the Nobel for hatred
[00:14:50] and that she submitted a report in
[00:14:54] March under the title
[00:14:57] "Beyond Human Endurance,"
[00:15:01] human endurance after
[00:15:04] sexual violence since
[00:15:08] October 7th against Palestinian
[00:15:11] prisoners. And regarding the news
[00:15:16] the Nobel,
[00:15:19] the award at our expense, at Israel's
[00:15:22] expense." And Goebbels
[00:15:26] is applauding now from hell. This
[00:15:29] is how the Israeli Foreign Ministry responded
[00:15:33] to this award, to this award
[00:15:38] for Pillay, the human rights activist from South
[00:15:40] Africa, who held
[00:15:43] the position of former UN
[00:15:45] High Commissioner
[00:15:47] for Human Rights
[00:15:50] at the UN, and who accused
[00:15:52] Israel
[00:15:56] repeatedly of committing
[00:15:59] genocide against the Palestinian
[00:16:02] people. The Israeli Foreign
[00:16:06] Ministry said that awarding Pillay
[00:16:09] the prize
[00:16:12] is not a recognition of justice, but
[00:16:15] a weapon aimed at legitimizing
[00:16:18] hatred for Israel.
[00:16:21] Trump, for his part, attacked, according to Yedioth
[00:16:24] Ahronoth, the awarding of the prize to the legal scholar from South
[00:16:28] Africa. He wrote on
[00:16:30] his page, Truth,
[00:16:34] of course, that this woman received
[00:16:38] the award instead of him, instead of
[00:16:41] Trump, and no one knows anything
[00:16:45] about her except for her
[00:16:48] hatred of Israel. He adopted the
[00:16:52] Israeli narrative. I returned 146
[00:16:55] hostages,
[00:16:59] hostages. He is talking about Israelis
[00:17:02] and others in the world. And it was
[00:17:05] supposed to add,
[00:17:09] the award. Pillay,
[00:17:13] of course,
[00:17:14] received
[00:17:20] the award during a legal conference
[00:17:23] she was attending, and the attendees applauded her
[00:17:27] for a long time. She said,
[00:17:30] sarcastically, "If you had applauded more, I
[00:17:33] would have shared the award with Trump."
[00:17:40] And Yedioth Ahronoth writes about Pillay's statements,
[00:17:43] as they appeared in
[00:17:47] 2015: "Israel is carrying out genocide
[00:17:51] in an attempt to exterminate the Palestinian
[00:17:54] people in Gaza."
[00:17:58] 2014: "Israel committed
[00:18:01] war crimes, including sexual
[00:18:04] violence against Palestinian
[00:18:07] prisoners."
[00:18:09] 2022:
[00:18:12] "The root of the problem is the continuation
[00:18:16] of the occupation, which must be
[00:18:20] ended."
[00:18:23] the war on Gaza, Israeli shelling
[00:18:27] led to the killing of women
[00:18:30] and children who
[00:18:33] searched or sought
[00:18:38] from Israeli shelling.
[00:18:41] Yedidia Stern, a writer in the newspaper
[00:18:44] Ahronoth, writes today
[00:18:47] about her receiving
[00:18:50] the Nobel Prize under the title "Strategic
[00:18:54] Warning." He says:
[00:18:56] The award of the prize
[00:19:00] to Pillay of course proves that
[00:19:04] this is what the world thinks about us,
[00:19:07] Israelis. Israel is at
[00:19:10] risk of slipping into international isolation,
[00:19:13] and everyone in Israel must unite
[00:19:19] decline. Israel today
[00:19:22] stands at the bottom of a
[00:19:25] slope. It must expect
[00:19:29] economic defeat, political
[00:19:32] defeat, and after Trump's
[00:19:36] term ends, also
[00:19:39] security defeat.
[00:19:42] And another news story about the Iranian threat and the Houthi
[00:19:46] attack. A worrying
[00:19:48] report for Israel. The Islamic
[00:19:52] Republic succeeded in re
[00:19:55] manufacturing ballistic missiles, and now
[00:19:59] Iran
[00:20:01] is trying to
[00:20:04] quo and send
[00:20:08] messages that it will continue
[00:20:11] negotiations with the United States.
[00:20:15] Bloomberg News Agency: Iran
[00:20:18] is renewing its military capabilities
[00:20:21] and producing missiles
[00:20:24] around the clock. And President
[00:20:28] Trump is considering how
[00:20:30] he will act before the midterm elections.
[00:20:34] And Tehran of course
[00:20:40] to threaten with its power
[00:20:43] and its strategic goals
[00:20:46] that have not been exploited yet.
[00:20:50] The cartoon in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper
[00:20:53] today, a very
[00:20:56] nice cartoon, and
[00:20:59] the cartoon is about the demonstration that took place,
[00:21:03] or the anniversary
[00:21:06] of October 7th, organized by the families
[00:21:08] of the killed and detained. Here,
[00:21:12] Netanyahu emerges from the sewage
[00:21:15] with his group of ministers around him.
[00:21:19] "It's over," is written here about the anniversary
[00:21:22] of October 7th.
[00:21:25] It's over, meaning everything
[00:21:29] is fine now.
[00:21:32] Netanyahu in the sewage, that's how the cartoonist sees
[00:21:36] him.
[00:21:38] Moving on to Maariv newspaper. Maariv
[00:21:41] newspaper wonders if it is expected
[00:21:45] to bomb Iran before the Israeli
[00:21:48] elections. Netanyahu does not deny
[00:21:51] that this possibility
[00:21:54] of a military operation is mainly aimed
[00:21:57] at postponing the elections.
[00:22:01] Sources in Israel: This possibility is not
[00:22:04] on the table now.
[00:22:06] And according
[00:22:09] to several sources, writes Pinkas
[00:22:12] Spitz, that the American administration
[00:22:16] wants Israel to first
[00:22:20] bomb Iran, and the United
[00:22:23] States will join it
[00:22:26] afterwards. And
[00:22:29] Zemir, the former Chief of Staff of the Israeli
[00:22:32] Army, said that such an attack
[00:22:36] would lead to the cancellation of elections
[00:22:40] in Israel. He clearly
[00:22:44] and explicitly stated
[00:22:46] that Iran should not be bombed
[00:22:50] before the elections
[00:22:53] because that would have
[00:22:56] a political impact on Israel and the cancellation
[00:23:01] least their postponement, and this is what
[00:23:04] Benjamin Netanyahu wants.
[00:23:07] A ballistic missile at Riyadh International Airport,
[00:23:10] and dozens of wounded.
[00:23:14] Dozens of injuries. Maariv wrote three
[00:23:18] dead, but all news agencies indicate
[00:23:21] that there are 12
[00:23:27] morning that among the dead were an American
[00:23:31] and a Palestinian from the West
[00:23:33] Bank.
[00:23:36] And the harsh reactions in
[00:23:39] Israel regarding this year's Nobel Prize
[00:23:43] are that it is a prize for blood libel
[00:23:46] and power for the lobby. I don't want to repeat
[00:23:50] the same thing, the same quotes from the Foreign Ministry,
[00:23:56] talk, and Israel's representative to the United Nations.
[00:24:00] It all boils down
[00:24:02] to the same issue. And another news item in Maariv,
[00:24:06] you noticed, in Yedioth Ahronoth and Maariv, there are no attacks
[00:24:09] by settlers. Maariv has a very trivial
[00:24:12] piece and the power
[00:24:16] of the pro-Palestine lobby.
[00:24:20] Demonstrations against Israel in
[00:24:23] dozens of countries around
[00:24:27] anniversary of October 7th.
[00:24:30] And the demonstrations were in central cities
[00:24:33] and capitals like
[00:24:36] Rome, London, and Sydney.
[00:24:39] Hundreds of thousands
[00:24:42] every country demanded
[00:24:45] an end to the genocide against the Palestinian
[00:24:49] people in
[00:24:52] Gaza. And news from India
[00:24:56] about the loud demonstrations there against
[00:24:59] Prime Minister Modi,
[00:25:01] who is known to be a friend of Netanyahu and a friend
[00:25:04] of Israel.
[00:25:07] And under the title "A Political
[00:25:10] Purge," the protest
[00:25:13] India after the removal of 130
[00:25:17] million names from the list.
[00:25:24] And of course, the cartoon in Maariv
[00:25:27] newspaper today about
[00:25:30] the Minister of Transportation and what is happening with transportation,
[00:25:34] as there are traffic jams and road accidents.
[00:25:37] And in the air, as
[00:25:41] drawing, and the Fly
[00:25:44] Dubai plane, all this, and the minister is not
[00:25:48] concerned.
[00:25:51] And moving on to Haaretz newspaper. As usual,
[00:25:54] its headlines differ, and its main
[00:25:57] headline, which Maariv ignored,
[00:26:00] Haaretz chose
[00:26:03] it to be its main headline: "Violence
[00:26:05] against Palestinians
[00:26:08] is increasing disturbingly
[00:26:12] during the olive harvest season."
[00:26:15] Documentation of more than 100 attacks
[00:26:18] yesterday. And according
[00:26:21] to the Palestinian Red Crescent,
[00:26:24] 12 farmers were injured
[00:26:27] and transferred to hospitals.
[00:26:30] In addition
[00:26:33] to that, last week,
[00:26:37] dozens of they write settlers,
[00:26:41] besieged a house
[00:26:47] the Wadi Al-Rahim area in
[00:26:50] Hebron, and the soldiers who
[00:26:55] the family
[00:26:56] allow
[00:26:59] these terrorists
[00:27:03] to attack or prevent the homeowners from
[00:27:07] leaving it. Even if they want
[00:27:09] to leave, they coordinate
[00:27:13] security,
[00:27:16] and they threaten and assault family
[00:27:20] members, and the soldiers just watch
[00:27:22] them. And documentation
[00:27:26] of a soldier in the Birzeit area during
[00:27:29] the olive harvest says
[00:27:32] to the Israeli volunteers who
[00:27:35] came to help, "This is a Jewish
[00:27:38] state, and they have the right," meaning these
[00:27:41] terrorists, "to everything before
[00:27:45] the Arabs." And the Nobel Peace
[00:27:50] the front page, but it differs completely. They
[00:27:54] quoted what the Foreign Ministry said, but
[00:27:58] they gave a comprehensive report about
[00:28:01] this personality, the internationally
[00:28:04] renowned legal scholar.
[00:28:07] And they did not use the word
[00:28:10] "Goebbels" or "hatred of Israel,"
[00:28:13] but they published the Israeli
[00:28:17] Foreign Ministry's reaction.
[00:28:19] But
[00:28:21] of course, she was a judge.
[00:28:25] Today in the International Court in The Hague
[00:28:29] and she was the head of the committee that accused
[00:28:33] Israel of war crimes. Of course,
[00:28:36] the Ministry of Foreign Affairs described
[00:28:39] her as Goebbels
[00:28:43] applauding her now while he is
[00:28:46] in hell. But,
[00:28:49] and of course, the United States imposed sanctions
[00:28:52] on the International Criminal Court,
[00:28:56] but this is not published,
[00:28:59] by the way, but all countries.
[00:29:02] European countries rejected
[00:29:05] American sanctions outright
[00:29:09] and these countries affirmed
[00:29:12] that they would support
[00:29:15] the existence of the International Criminal Court. But
[00:29:18] Gideon Levy responds
[00:29:21] to the statements of the Israeli
[00:29:24] Foreign Ministry and asks in the title
[00:29:27] of his article, who is Goebbels
[00:29:29] applauding in hell? He quotes
[00:29:32] the Foreign Minister that Goebbels
[00:29:36] is applauding the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
[00:29:39] If he is applauding, then
[00:29:43] he is applauding Israel's
[00:29:45] crimes.
[00:29:48] That is, he is applauding Israel's crimes,
[00:29:51] and the editorial of the newspaper
[00:29:55] is about torture centers in Israel.
[00:29:59] The article begins with Hiba,
[00:30:03] 38 years old, mother of
[00:30:06] West Bank, was convicted twice
[00:30:08] of entering Israel without a permit in
[00:30:12] order to support her
[00:30:15] five children and was arrested in Damon prison.
[00:30:19] During five months, she was subjected
[00:30:22] to torture, starvation, and assault by
[00:30:25] the jailers, by beating her and pulling her hair
[00:30:29] and exposing her
[00:30:31] to electric shocks and throwing
[00:30:34] bombs inside
[00:30:38] reality is known, but
[00:30:43] not care
[00:30:45] about that.
[00:30:47] Haaretz adds, when Israel kidnapped
[00:30:50] the Nazi
[00:30:52] Eichmann, meaning they brought him and tried him in
[00:30:56] Israel, and he was the only one sentenced to death in
[00:30:59] Israel. No one thought
[00:31:03] to hurt or beat him during
[00:31:07] his detention. But in Netanyahu's government
[00:31:10] and Ben Gvir, everything is allowed
[00:31:12] regarding Palestinians. Thank you
[00:31:15] for watching and I will see you tomorrow morning.
[00:31:19] Thank you to colleague Fayez Abbas for all these
[00:31:22] details and clarifications. A short break and we will continue with you.
[00:34:40] Welcome back, dear viewers. Today we will talk
[00:34:43] about the loss of
[00:34:46] the olive season in Palestine due to settler attacks
[00:34:49] and low production. In the 2026
[00:34:53] season, estimates from the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture
[00:34:56] indicate the possibility of producing about
[00:34:59] 21,000 tons of olive oil if
[00:35:04] to access all their lands and harvest the crop. But
[00:35:08] today, we are talking about access restrictions
[00:35:11] and attacks that may lead to the loss
[00:35:14] of more than a quarter of the expected production. That's true, Farah.
[00:35:18] When we talk about the olive season, the olive season for
[00:35:21] farmers, for Palestinians in general, it is
[00:35:24] a primary source of livelihood and also an economic
[00:35:27] pillar, both in terms of the wide range of
[00:35:30] activities that take place during
[00:35:32] the season of harvesting olives,
[00:35:36] and also, this season is supposed to be a compensatory season
[00:35:39] for farmers and an increase in their income, but the continuous attacks
[00:35:45] army on farmers, on trees, and even the theft
[00:35:52] in the studio Professor Fayyad Fayyad, consultant to the International
[00:35:56] Olive Council and representative of Palestine in Spain. Good morning and welcome.
[00:36:00] Good morning to all of you and our dear farmers, and happy
[00:36:03] new year. This day is supposed
[00:36:07] to be the start of the mills' work, but unfortunately, the mills have
[00:36:10] been working for more than two weeks in most areas.
[00:36:14] Yes, Professor Fayyad, initial estimates
[00:36:18] indicate the possibility of producing about 21,000
[00:36:21] tons of olive oil. Is this number still realistic
[00:36:24] after the attacks and restrictions on access,
[00:36:28] the destruction of trees, their burning, and many of the practices
[00:36:31] carried out by the occupation and settlers? Thank
[00:36:34] you for hosting me and thank you for
[00:36:38] this specific topic. Of course, the Ministry of
[00:36:41] Agriculture, with all its departments
[00:36:45] that this season we will have 21,500
[00:36:48] tons or 21,000 tons. Of course, you mentioned
[00:36:51] in the introduction that if we are able to access all
[00:36:55] our lands, but we are in a year
[00:37:02] where we could not reach them because these lands
[00:37:05] are supposed to have their farmers keen to
[00:37:08] get permits behind the wall and in
[00:37:12] year might be exceptional, even more so than the
[00:37:16] 128,000 dunums that their owners were
[00:37:22] العام اسرائيل طلعت ايضا
[00:37:26] will not be implemented: that farmers are forbidden
[00:37:30] from accessing government lands. Government lands are a broad
[00:37:33] category that includes some lands in Area
[00:37:37] A, B, and C, not limited to
[00:37:39] Area C2.
[00:37:42] year, we have a new phenomenon,
[00:37:46] which is settler attacks and crop
[00:37:48] theft. Previously, in previous
[00:37:51] years, they used
[00:37:55] farmers, steal
[00:37:57] crops from farmers, and steal
[00:38:01] year, it has developed because
[00:38:04] now the Israeli mentality, the Finance
[00:38:07] Minister, has addressed Israeli youth, saying that this
[00:38:11] land is your land, the land of your ancestors, and these
[00:38:14] olives were planted by your ancestors. So all these lands
[00:38:18] in the West Bank are yours, and you can harvest
[00:38:22] them in any way you see fit. This statement
[00:38:25] is very dangerous, so now
[00:38:27] settlers have no restrictions on them,
[00:38:32] army, unfortunately, and it is in coordination, I expect, with
[00:38:36] Israel, with the policy, with all of that, in order to push
[00:38:39] us to a stage where
[00:38:42] either we resort to violence with them, which is what
[00:38:45] we do not want, because we are the weak point in this
[00:38:49] regard, or we leave
[00:38:53] the land, and both are unacceptable to us,
[00:38:56] because for us, olives are not just an economy,
[00:39:00] and not just that 10,000 families
[00:39:04] olives, and not just that we have a national income
[00:39:08] of 150 to 180 million
[00:39:11] dollars, nothing more. Our identity is Palestinian, our olives
[00:39:15] are our olives. 25
[00:39:18] occupations have passed in Palestine, and this 26th
[00:39:21] occupation will disappear, God willing. That's right, we are talking
[00:39:25] about the importance of the olive tree for Palestinians. Well, when
[00:39:29] we talk about uprooting olive trees, the loss
[00:39:32] exceeds the harvest season we are talking about. The Ministry
[00:39:36] of Agriculture documented that more than 26,000 olive
[00:39:40] trees were uprooted during the first half of the current year. How are
[00:39:43] the economic losses of a productive tree that is
[00:39:46] uprooted and burned calculated? And how much time does
[00:39:50] a Palestinian farmer need to replace this tree and plant
[00:39:55] This number you mentioned, I think, is a small
[00:39:59] number. The reality is that in September, last month,
[00:40:03] we are talking about the first half of the year. Yes, the first half, that's
[00:40:06] right. Yes, I mean that the number is small because
[00:40:10] should we include Gaza or not? If we include Gaza, it is small. No,
[00:40:14] we are talking about the West Bank. Yes, your words are correct. We have
[00:40:17] approximately from the day of the occupation
[00:40:20] in 2003, meaning 2023,
[00:40:24] until now, we have huge numbers.
[00:40:36] A dirham in one week in Arraba and Ya'bad, considering
[00:40:40] that ancient trees were uprooted and ancient trees can
[00:40:43] be planted in another area, and
[00:40:46] then it would be better. But they did
[00:40:49] not allow the owners of the land to reach these olive trees. Second,
[00:40:55] tree. Its value cannot be estimated for a tree that is 200 years
[00:40:59] old or 500
[00:41:01] years old. I mean, they are currently in the
[00:41:05] normal market, in the normal market, if someone wants to
[00:41:07] build a house and wants to uproot olive trees,
[00:41:11] the law does not allow it except by pledging
[00:41:14] to plant them in another area. Of course,
[00:41:18] planting them for two years returns them to their previous state,
[00:41:21] and their value is estimated in thousands of dinars, not
[00:41:25] that the settlers steal old olive trees and plant
[00:41:28] them in their settlements, so that these are
[00:41:31] their ancestors who planted them. Yes, if we talk
[00:41:35] about early harvesting and its relation to quality,
[00:41:37] some farmers resort to
[00:41:42] losing the crop or being prevented later from accessing their
[00:41:45] lands. So what does the farmer lose when he harvests
[00:41:49] the crop early? Here we will talk from two
[00:41:52] angles. If his land is subject to theft
[00:41:56] and there is a
[00:41:59] we tell him to trust God, for necessities allow
[00:42:02] what is forbidden. But if he is not forced, then
[00:42:06] we have a problem because early harvesting has two
[00:42:09] disadvantages. The first disadvantage is that the
[00:42:13] oil is not ripe. Second, the amount
[00:42:16] of oil, which we call the liquidity
[00:42:19] ratio, is low, and it might be
[00:42:23] - I'll give you an example - currently, the active
[00:42:26] mills have been working for over 15 days. When they
[00:42:30] first started, the liquidity ratio was
[00:42:33] 12, 13, 15, and then it rose to 16, 17. Our
[00:42:37] liquidity ratio in Palestine, in general, is
[00:42:40] 23%. When we say 23%, we mean that
[00:42:44] if someone got 17, they didn't lose 6%,
[00:42:47] they lost 6 divided
[00:42:51] by 23, which is a very high percentage. So
[00:42:54] they lost a quarter of their season or half
[00:42:58] of their season. This is one of the losses. Second,
[00:43:01] when we press the olives
[00:43:04] go to the mill, in the mill, we have
[00:43:08] two main parts: a mixer and a turbine. These
[00:43:12] are essential for the olives, for the
[00:43:15] unripe seeds. They need
[00:43:18] different treatment inside the mill than ripe olives in
[00:43:22] terms of mixing time. So this means that we will
[00:43:26] have a very high residue in the pomace,
[00:43:29] meaning that we have unripe oil. Second,
[00:43:33] a low liquidity ratio, and also,
[00:43:36] the third thing that happens in the mill is that
[00:43:40] there is a lot of waste in the pomace because
[00:43:44] quickly. That's true, and the pressing process needs
[00:43:47] more mixing. So if we talk about the amount
[00:43:51] of support available to farmers, especially
[00:43:55] since many farmers lose their crops and have them stolen by
[00:43:58] settlers, and trees are destroyed, as we said,
[00:44:02] in huge numbers, are there compensation mechanisms
[00:44:06] for farmers or rehabilitation programs so that in
[00:44:10] the coming seasons, their production will be somewhat
[00:44:13] compensatory? The support is
[00:44:16] continuous, but it is limited
[00:44:18] and small. We live in an economic crisis in general
[00:44:22] as a country, as a government, as
[00:44:27] projects that come from abroad may
[00:44:30] not be targeted at olives to the same degree. Yes, that's
[00:44:34] right. The ministry, for example, says, and the Minister of Agriculture
[00:44:37] announced, that for every olive tree that is uprooted,
[00:44:41] they will give them a three-year-old tree in its place. This
[00:44:45] is excellent, but for a three-year-old tree
[00:44:47] to be equivalent to a 200-year-old tree
[00:44:52] a simple matter. There is support, but this
[00:44:55] support does not compensate for the damage
[00:44:58] inflicted on farmers. Yes, Professor Fayyad,
[00:45:01] the most important thing that concerns citizens today
[00:45:04] is the price of a liter of olive oil. So
[00:45:08] what will determine the price? Is there a price that
[00:45:11] you, as the Olive Council, can set?
[00:45:15] Previously, when there was olive oil, we used
[00:45:18] to coordinate with consumer protection and all
[00:45:21] other parties to create what we
[00:45:24] call an index, a comprehensive index. But
[00:45:27] currently, there is nothing. Currently, the season has not
[00:45:31] started yet. The season officially starts
[00:45:34] in four days, on the 15th of the month. Therefore,
[00:45:38] what is currently being traded and the prices are astronomical
[00:45:42] or high prices or not high prices are rumors
[00:45:45] that have no basis in reality. Currently, olive
[00:45:49] oil is sold at the mills in the north,
[00:45:52] which are operating, for 35 shekels per liter and sold
[00:45:58] shekels. So the figures being circulated in the market
[00:46:02] are not reflected in reality. However, the season has
[00:46:05] just begun. I think this year, my expectations
[00:46:09] as an expert and a mill owner,
[00:46:14] be competitive at the beginning of the season, when
[00:46:18] 16 companies are competing to be the first to
[00:46:21] reach the Gulf states. But after the 4,000 tons
[00:46:25] that traders need are gone, prices will
[00:46:28] drop back to what they were in
[00:46:31] previous years, provided that there
[00:46:34] is enough supply. Second, we have a lot
[00:46:39] the market. Large oil were
[00:46:43] imported last year, but they were unable
[00:46:46] to market 100% of it,
[00:46:49] and we also received oil
[00:46:52] illegally, even though the customs authorities,
[00:46:56] the regulatory bodies, and the Ministry of Agriculture are all
[00:47:00] doing their duty and working day and night.
[00:47:02] But our borders are open with the enemy,
[00:47:06] so in some governorates, the settlements are
[00:47:09] integrated with the cities, so it is impossible to control
[00:47:13] what is smuggled. This is a message to citizens: when
[00:47:16] you want to buy olive oil, you must go to
[00:47:20] Palestinian mills to buy
[00:47:24] and there is no need for us to buy
[00:47:27] imported oils from abroad, and the
[00:47:30] prices, as you said, will be affordable for
[00:47:33] everyone after the beginning of the season. I
[00:47:37] guarantee you that in November, prices will
[00:47:40] be affordable for everyone. By the end
[00:47:43] of November, prices will be similar to previous
[00:47:46] years, or possibly even lower. Thank you for
[00:47:50] your presence with us and thank you for all
[00:47:53] this valuable information. But
[00:47:56] we can give some advice. Today is the day
[00:48:00] the mills open. We, the mill owners, have
[00:48:03] all due respect for them. They are all experts
[00:48:06] and know more than engineers. They are excellent. But we have
[00:48:10] a habit of people
[00:48:13] Shisha has become widespread in mills now.
[00:48:17] Smoke affects the entry of trucks to
[00:48:21] empty the oil or extract the oil for us.
[00:48:24] When it comes to fuel, we have
[00:48:27] electric forklifts that enter, but those that
[00:48:30] run on diesel mean that some
[00:48:34] of their parts mix with the oil. So
[00:48:38] to maintain the quality of
[00:48:40] the oil, we have an
[00:48:44] to generation, which is that when it's someone's turn
[00:48:48] at the mill, they bring a loaf of bread
[00:48:51] and put it next to the separator so that
[00:48:55] people can come and put the bread
[00:48:59] under the separator and eat fresh oil.
[00:49:02] Of course, this is a custom that we have inherited
[00:49:06] from generation to generation, but when we put
[00:49:09] the bread under the separator and the
[00:49:12] oil comes down, crumbs from the bread
[00:49:15] mix with the oil, and this can cause
[00:49:19] the oil to spoil
[00:49:23] and it's important. Thank you for being with us and
[00:49:26] thank you for all this valuable advice and information to
[00:49:30] Professor Fayyad Fayyad, consultant to the International Olive Council
[00:49:33] and representative of Palestine