Al-Hilal’s veteran midfielder Mohammed Al-Shalhoub says he is undecided about whether to retire or continue playing at his beloved Al-Hilal or at another club next season.
The 37 year-old celebrating his seventh league title in the colors of Al-Hilal with his young daughter Al-Bandari at the end of Al-Za’eem’s 4-1 victory over Al-Fateh that captured a record 15th league title.
Al-Shalhoub has spent his entire playing career at Al-Hilal after making his debut 20 years ago in 1998, however he has made just one start in the league and 11 overall this season. In his one and only start in the league against Al-Qadisiyah last month he scored the winning goal. He is out of contract this summer and could well have played his last game for the Riyadh giants.
“The fact that I was focused in the last period toward the end of the league on winning the championship with Al-Hilal, I did not want to distract my thoughts over the subject of my retirement or any possible new destination if I left Al-Hilal,” he told KSA Sport TV program Al-Barnamig Al-Khaima (The Tent Show).
Al-Shaloub added that he “honestly did not know” when he would retire and only was focusing on finishing the season with a league title for his club and would announce his decision at the end of the campaign. “We will see in the coming days,” Al-Shaloub concluded.
Al-Hilal legend Mohammed Al-Shalhoub to decide future ‘in the coming days’
Al-Hilal legend Mohammed Al-Shalhoub to decide future ‘in the coming days’
French publisher recalls dictionary over ‘Jewish settler’ reference
- The entry in French reads: “In October 2023, following the death of more than 1,200 Jewish settlers in a series of Hamas attacks”
- The four books are subject to a recall procedure and will be destroyed, Hachette said
PARSI: French publisher Hachette on Friday said it had recalled a dictionary that described the Israeli victims of the October 7, 2023 attacks as “Jewish settlers” and promised to review all its textbooks and educational materials.
The Larousse dictionary for 11- to 15-year-old students contained the same phrase as that discovered by an anti-racism body in three revision books, the company told AFP.
The entry in French reads: “In October 2023, following the death of more than 1,200 Jewish settlers in a series of Hamas attacks, Israel decided to tighten its economic blockade and invade a large part of the Gaza Strip, triggering a major humanitarian crisis in the region.”
The worst attack in Israeli history saw militants from the Palestinian Islamist group kill around 1,200 people in settlements close to the Gaza Strip and at a music festival.
“Jewish settlers” is a term used to describe Israelis living on illegally occupied Palestinian land.
The four books, which were immediately withdrawn from sale, are subject to a recall procedure and will be destroyed, Hachette said, promising a “thorough review of its textbooks, educational materials and dictionaries.”
France’s leading publishing group, which came under the control of the ultra-conservative Vincent Bollore at the end of 2023, has begun an internal inquiry “to determine how such an error was made.”
It promised to put in place “a new, strengthened verification process for all its future publications” in these series.
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said that it was “intolerable” that the revision books for the French school leavers’ exam, the baccalaureat, “falsify the facts” about the “terrorist and antisemitic attacks by Hamas.”
“Revisionism has no place in the Republic,” he wrote on X.
Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people, with 251 people taken hostage, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Authorities in Gaza estimate that more than 70,000 people have been killed by Israeli forces during their bombardment of the territory since, while nearly 80 percent of buildings have been destroyed or damaged, according to UN data.
Israeli forces have killed at least 447 Palestinians in Gaza since a ceasefire took effect in October, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
