While sales began to recover in 2023, Chinese manufacturers’ share of the market rose to about 50 percent, compared with less than 10 percent before the invasion.
“There is nothing here – no schools, no health clinics, no water and no electricity,” al-Khatib said while sitting on the ground in his tent near what remains of his home.The conflict, which erupted in 2011 following al-Assad’s brutal suppression of antigovernment protests, killed more than 500,000 people and displaced half of Syria’s pre-war population either internally or abroad, with many seeking refuge in Idlib province.
According to the International Organization for Migration, more than six million people remain internally displaced.A glimpse into the people, places and daily life in Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.Long before lines were drawn on a map and city names were changed, there existed a land full of people who lived in bustling cities and remote villages, where markets overflowed with diverse voices, and farmers tended olive trees rooted deep in the hills.
This story is told not through treaties or timelines, but through photographs: small, powerful fragments that capture the texture of daily life and those who lived it.They offer a rare, unfiltered lens into the lived reality of Palestinians in a time before exile and occupation dominated the narrative.
This collection of 100 archived images of life in Palestine before the
, when Zionist militias expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians and captured 78 percent of historical Palestine.“According to our data, we had no product exports to Russia during 2023, and we have procedures in place to confirm those numbers,” the spokesperson told Al Jazeera.
“Based on the information you provided, we can conclude that the products have not been manufactured by Electrolux, nor exported to Russia on our behalf. We do not manufacture these product categories in China, and we have not given consent to any supplier to export Electrolux-branded products to Russia. Thus, the import is a completely unacceptable, unauthorised use of our brand."Other Western brands readily available in Russia denied any involvement in supplying goods to the country and pointed to their efforts to maintain control over their supply chains.
“Audi has not been supplying cars directly or knowingly indirectly to Russia since March 2022. There is currently no licensed importer for the import of vehicles in Russia. We do not accept grey market imports of cars or original Audi parts to Russia,” Audi told Al Jazeera in a written statement to Al Jazeera.Mercedes said it had taken measures to ensure control over the sale of its vehicles.