RAMALLAH, Monday, November 4, 2019 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to seize over 200 dunams of Palestinian land in the West Bank districts of Tubas and Jerusalem hit the front page headlines in Monday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Quds reported that the Israeli occupation authorities delivered orders to demolish Palestinian structures and seize Palestinian land in the West Bank.

Al-Ayyam elaborated that the Israeli authorities delivered demolition order for six Palestinian structures to the east of Yatta town in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.

It added that the Israeli authorities started the leveling of Palestinian land in preparation for the construction of a new road to serve only Israeli settlers to the north of Hebron.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the Israeli authorities seized 36 dunams of Palestinian land belonging to the northern West Bank district of Tubas.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported that the Israeli authorities renewed a decision to seize 190 dunams of land belonging to Anata town, northeast of Jerusalem.

The dailies reported that President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree law setting the marriage age at 18 calendar years for both men and women.

Abbas issued another decree law allowing mothers to open bank accounts for their minor children.

Chairman of the Central Elections Commission (CEC) Hanna Nasser was reported in the dailies that the Palestinian political factions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have agreed to go ahead with presidential and legislative elections.

According to al-Quds, the Israeli Ministerial Council for Housing is expected to approve today Jerusalem’s light rail project.

It said that the Hashemite Fund for the Restoration of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinian Ministry of Waqf (Islamic Endowments) signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations on the implementation of development projects in Jerusalem.

It also reported that Jordanian activists organized a rally in Amman urging their government to take immediate action to secure the release of Hiba al-Labadi and Abdelrahman Meri.

Al-Labadi and Meri are two Jordanians who are illegally placed under administrative detention in Israeli jails.

According to the dailies, Israeli occupation authorities released Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Fadi al-Hadmi after subjecting him for intensive interrogation for six hours.

Al-Quds highlighted media reports that Israeli lawmaker Ayelet Shaked has submitted a bill to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on extending Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley as well as the West Bank settlements of Gush Etzion and Maale Adumim.

It spotlighted calls on the UN to provide international protection for the Palestinian people due to escalating Israeli crimes.

These calls were made following a video emerged online showing an Israeli guard at a checkpoint telling a Palestinian to turn back at a West Bank checkpoint on the edge of Jerusalem before shooting him in the back with a sponge-tipped bullet last year.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that a Palestinian woman sustained injuries after being run over by a settler to the south of Bethlehem.

They added that a Palestinian young man was shot and injured from Israeli gunfire to the west of Jenin.

According to al-Ayyam, Israeli forces rounded up two Palestinians from the central West Bank city of Hebron.

It said that Palestinian residents of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiyeh confirm ongoing strike in schools protesting Israeli police detentions of students.

According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, the Jordanian branch of the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced it had reached an agreement ending a strike by employees protesting low wages.

Al-Ayyam said that several Palestinian families in Jerusalem secured an Israeli court order confirming their ownership of the Friday’s Market, also known as Souq al-Jum‘a, in Jerusalem.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) calls on the UN Secretary-General to take a clear stance on the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people.

It said that contractors decide to end their boycott of the projects funded by the Palestinian Finance Ministry.

It added that dozens of Palestinians students sustained suffocation after Israeli forces fired gas canisters near a complex of schools in the city of Hebron, south of the West Bank.

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