RAMALLAH, April 25, 2018 (WAFA) – News about Israeli demolition and stop work orders issued to a number of Palestinian buildings in the village of Qalandia, bordering Jerusalem from the north, was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies on Wednesday.
Al-Quds said the orders affect 15 buildings where 35 Palestinian families live.
Al-Ayyam said similar orders were issued for Palestinians in the town of al-Samou, near Hebron in the south of the West Bank.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and the two other dailies also reported on the demolition of a house in Jenin that belonged to the family of Ahmad Qunba, who was arrested by Israel and charged with complicity in the killing of a settler in the north of the West Bank in January.
In other news, al-Quds highlighted the fighting in and around Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus. It said dozens were killed and injured in the fighting.
It said the body of Fadi al-Batsh, who was assassinated apparently by Israeli agents in Malaysia last week, is expected to arrive in Gaza on Wednesday for burial in his hometown. The other two dailies said the body is expected in Gaza on Thursday.
Al-Quds reported on the upcoming meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) with a headline: “The PNC: between necessity of convening and fears of boycott.”
The paper said Gaza hospitals postponed 4000 operations following pressure due to the high number of injuries from Israeli army gunfire during the border protests in the last few weeks.
Al-Ayyam said a video showed Israeli soldiers celebrating when a Palestinian protester was shot in the West Bank town of Madama.
It quoted presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh saying the Palestinian leadership will reject any plan other than an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The paper had a story by its Jerusalem correspondent reporting on how Israel first turned Palestinian-owned land in Sur Baher, an East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood, into public property and then turned it into a Jewish settlement.
It said in a story by its Gaza correspondent that the idea of creation of an alternative leadership to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was stillborn due to rejections by the factions.
It said Jewish groups have called for breaking into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on May 13, when Israel marks its occupation of East Jerusalem based on the Jewish calendar.
The paper also said the government announced that Tuesday, May 1, is a national holiday marking Labor Day.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted the meetings of President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters with members of Palestinian s and creative women.
It also reported on the telephone call between Abbas and Nayef Hawatmeh, head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
It said as well that the Palestinian cabinet condemned in its meeting on Tuesday the smear campaign against the leadership and expressed support for the meeting of the PNC at the end of this month.
It said the family of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, the 13-year-old Palestinian who was burnt alive by Jewish terrorists few years ago in Jerusalem, is suing for compensation from the killers.
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