RAMALLAH, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 (WAFA) – The ongoing systematic campaign of home demolitions in Jerusalem designed to achieve the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians dominated the front page headlines in Wednesday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
Al-Quds reported that Israeli bulldozers demolished several Palestinian houses and structures in the West Bank districts of Jerusalem and Tulkarem.
Al-Ayyam elaborated that Israeli occupation authorities demolished two Palestinian houses and a shack in Jerusalem and Tulkarem.
Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian house in the Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Suwwana besides to a shack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya. Besides, a Palestinian was forced to tear down his own house in Issawiyah.
The dailies added that Israeli forces delivered demolition notices for six Palestinian houses in Kobar town, to the north of Ramallah city.
According to al-Quds, Israeli military vehicles infiltrated the Gaza frontier and reached dozens of meters into Palestinian land east of al-Maghazi.
Al-Quds highlighted the latest visit of US President Donald Trump’s top advisor Jared Kushner to Israel.
It said that Kushner reveals the positions of President Donald Trump’s administration on Israel’s security, the US-touted Mideast plan, dubbed deal of the century, and Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley.
It said that a delegation representing the Central Elections Commission (CEC) concluded its visit to Gaza and returned to Ramallah to present the response of Hamas and other Palestinian factions over general elections to President Mahmoud Abbas.
The dailies said in this regard that President Abbas affirmed his keen interest in holding legislative and presidential elections in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
Furthermore, al-Quds and al-Ayyam spotlighted the remarks of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov following his visit to the Al-Haram Al-Sharif compound in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Mladenov was reported underscoring the importance of upholding the status quo at the holy sites in Jerusalem and calling on to “refrain from provocations that could escalate tensions in and around Jerusalem’s holy sites.”
According to al-Ayyam, Israeli police assaulted several Palestinians and detained seven others from Jerusalem’s Old City.
Al-Quds said that Israeli police assaulted the Waqf-appointed guards as 287 Israeli settlers, police and intelligence officers barged their way into the mosque compound.
The dailies said that Israeli Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan has taken a set of arbitrary decisions against Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith.
The dailies reported US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders advocating that some of the $3 billion that Washington in military aid be given to the Palestinians as humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that US Democratic presidential candidates pledge to put pressure on Israel to allow the establishment of the Palestinian state.
Sweden’s new foreign minister Anna Lindh was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida stating that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) is not anti-Semitic, but rather a legitimate movement.
According to al-Ayyam, Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest of the latter’s ongoing detention of two Jordanian citizens, including Hiba al-Labadi.
Deputy Premier Nabil Abu Rudeineh was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida urging Europe to safeguard the international legitimacy and salvage the political process and the two-state solution.
The Government Spokesman Ibrahim Milhem was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida affirming that the government’s decision to bar the imports of Israeli cattle and other livestock was still valid.
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