RAMALLAH, Sunday, October 27, 2019 (WAFA) – News about the Israeli police suppression of a rally in Jerusalem in support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners made headlines in the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Sunday.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Israeli police on Saturday evening attacked Palestinians demonstrating at Salaheddin Street in occupied Jerusalem in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest against their administrative detention in Israeli jails.
The papers added that Israeli police attacked the demonstrators with teargas canisters and stun grenades in an attempt to disperse them. A youth was detained after being brutally attacked by the police.
On a different subject, the dailies reported that fanatic Israeli settlers chopped off 25 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Nahalin, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
The three dailies said Israeli forces attacked a nonviolent protest which was called for by the Anti-Wall and Settlement Committee and Fatah movement in the city of Tubas, northeast of the West Bank, to protest against the continued settlement expansion and the establishment of a new outpost in the northern Jordan Valley area.
Al-Ayyam reported a statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Malki. He said during the ongoing 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku, Azerbaijan, that it was time for the international community to recognize that “the Israeli regime of control and oppression in the occupied territory of the State of Palestine is an illegal occupation”.
Al-Malki was also quoted by Al-Ayyam as saying, “There must be no compromise or excuses for the agenda of colonization and annexation, and the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement must remain at the forefront of rejecting such illegal behavior and defending the law that protects us all.”
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Quds said Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh is expected to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the economic crisis that hospitals in Jerusalem are currently going through.
Al-Quds said that Lebanon’s anti-corruption protests continued for the 10th day in a row.
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