RAMALLAH, Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (WAFA) – Reactions to the bombshell ‘Pompeo Declaration’, as it may be called in the future, which recognized “the legitimacy” of illegal Zionist colonies on the internationally recognized Israeli-occupied West Bank hit the front page headlines in Wednesday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
Al-Quds reported that the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement received broad Palestinian condemnation, and highlighted Palestinian calls to confront the US policy that violates international law.
Al-Ayyam said that the Palestinian leadership is exerting intensive efforts to face the US stance ]on Israeli colonies in the West Bank[, and intends to lobby the International Criminal Court and other international institutions against the ‘Pompeo Declaration’.
The dailies added that the Palestinian leadership started a series of emergency meetings to take measures to face the US decisions.
Highlighting international reactions to the declaration, al-Quds said that the United Nations besides to major powers and institutions distance themselves from the US policy.
Al-Ayyam said that the world unites against Israeli settlements and slams the latest US stance as “illegitimate”, “a violation of international law” and “blow to peace”.
According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, US and British parliamentarians slammed ‘Pompeo’s Declaration’ as a threat to the two-state solution.
Al-Quds said that Palestine requests an urgent Arab League meeting over the US declaration.
The latest spate of home demolitions across the West Bank also dominated the front page headlines in the dailies.
The dailies said that Israeli occupation authorities demolished four Palestinian houses in Jerusalem and Hebron, citing unlicensed building as a pretext.
Al-Quds added that a Palestinian was forced to tear down his own house in Jerusalem.
According to al-Ayyam, Israeli settlers barged their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Al-Quds elaborated that the settlers were led by Israeli Agriculture Minister Uri Aryel and the New York-born extremist Israeli lawmaker Yehuda Glick.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli forces detained 30 Palestinians in multiple raids across the West Bank.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that anti-Zionist Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum lands in Israel and confirms that Zionists are causing destructions to Israel.
According to al-Quds, Blue and White Party headed by former military chief Benny Gantz is making marathon contacts and meetings to form a new government before the end of his mandate.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu calls on his political rival Gantz and former ‘Defence’ Minister Avigdor Lieberman to come together in a broad unity government that would annex the Jordan Valley.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that 165 states voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution in support of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.
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