Israelis visit Tunisia

The correspondent of the Israeli daily Yadhout Ahronout in Tunisia said that despite severing relations between Tunisia and Israel, yet Tunisia permits the Israelis to enter its territories.

According to the Israeli radio on Friday, the correspondent added that the Tunisian authorities permitted the Israelis to enter Tunisia to take part in the celebrations to be held there on May 10 and 11.

Worthy mentioning, Tunisia had severed diplomatic relations with Israel since the eruption of the Palestinian Intifada in September, 2000.

Meantime, the Israeli daily Maareve said on Friday that the Tunisian authorities decided unofficially to permit Israelis who want to take part in the traditional celebrations in Jarba island in Tunisia to enter the country. The deputy director general of the Tunisian ministry of Tourism Afif Mahrizi said in a statement to the Israeli paper's correspondent in Tunisia, quoted by the Israeli radio that the Tunisian authorities is concerned with the arrival of Israeli tourists to visit Tunisia and that at the meantime means to facilitate the arrival of those Israelis to Tunisia have been made.

The Tunisian official added that it is not possible to make official statements unless conditions in the Middle East are clarified and conditions of the Palestinian people are improved.