According to a text message that many buyers received from Alibaba on Monday, the Chinese e-commerce giant will no longer serve Palestinians that want to make purchases on AliExpress.com.
According to the announcement from the Palestinian Authority’s mail services Palestine Post, parcels from Israel will not be delivered to Palestine from January 1, 2022. The Palestinian Authority has also allegedly raised new requirements for stickers on packages.
Israeli media reported that the Palestinian Authority’s mail services refuse to handle packages that have the word Israel in the address, but many Palestinians do not know this and write Israel as the destination country rather than Palestine so they don’t receive their packages.
This is causing a lot of damage to both the commercial sites and the customers.
Similar messages were sent to buyers from the Chinese online fast-fashion retailer Shein and several other trading websites, so the Israeli authorities are now considering new procedures for transferring parcels through the country.
According to Alibaba’s statement, decided to completely halt its operations there considering the jumbled mail situation and after the calculations showed that their revenue from orders from Palestinian cities such as Jericho, Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, and Jenin does not justify the problems.
Meanwhile, the Israel Post Authority said that the announcement is intended only for residents of the Palestinian Authority and related to package delivery arrangements between online trading companies abroad and the Palestinian Authority.
Sources involved in the matter noted that, by the beginning of next week, it is possible to find a solution acceptable to both the Chinese sites and the PA Postal Authority and shipments to Palestine will not be canceled.
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