RAMALLAH, Tuesday, December 03, 2019 (WAFA) – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development report estimating that the total fiscal loss to the Palestinian government at $48 billion for the past two decades dominated the front page headlines in Tuesday’s issue of the Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that, based on the UNCTAD report, Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories has cost the economy of the Palestinians an average of $2.5 billion a year for the past two decades.

Al-Ayyam said the report reveals that Palestinian losses of public revenues as a result of Israeli’s occupation is $48 billion for the past 18 years.

On the other hand, al-Quds opted to highlight the latest constriction of colonial settlements and by-pass roads in the occupied West Bank.

It said that Israel constructed a new colonial-settler project to the east of the West Bank city of Nablus.

It added that Israel has commenced the construction of a new settler-only by-pass road near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Al-Ayyam opted to spotlight the recently-revealed Israeli plan to make changes inside the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.

It added that Israeli occupation authorities ordered a Palestinian to evacuate his house to hand it over to settlers in the city.

According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Jordan condemns Israel’s decision to construct a new settlement in Hebron.

Al-Quds said that Israeli occupation authorities demolished a Palestinian house in Jerusalem, and Israeli naval forces opened gunfire on fishermen off the coast of Gaza city.

It also reported that Palestinian municipal authorities and landowners held a series of meetings to discuss the means to confront Israel’s decision to seize 800 dunams of Palestinian land to the south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem.

Al-Quds highlighted Israeli human rights group B‘Tselem‘s report showing that Israeli colonial settlements are a source of suffering for Palestinian civilians.

The human rights group was also reported slamming Israel’s approval to construct a new colonial settlement in the Palestinian wholesale market in the southern West Bank flashpoint city of Hebron as in violation of international law and agreements.

The dailies said that President Mahmoud Abbas mourns the passing of Ahmad Abdul-Rahman, former presidential advisor, who died at 76 in Ramallah.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Abbas extended his condolences to Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz on the death of Prince Mutaib.

Al-Quds printed an article showing that “Price Tag”, the underground terrorist Israeli group, has picked up the pace of their attacks against Palestinians since the start of 2019.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Gaza Great March of Return protests are set to resume next Friday after three-week pause.

Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh was reported in al-Quds pledging to do everything possible to halt Israeli plans to build new colonial settlements in the Jerusalem-district village Qalandia, the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir and Hebron.

Shtayyeh was also reported in al-Ayyam slamming the US-funded projects in the besieged Gaza Strip, particularly the US field hospital to be set up in the northern Gaza Strip, as intended to move forward the US-touted solution and sabotage the Palestinian national project.

The Palestinian cabinet was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida cautioning against dealing with the outcomes of the US-sponsored economic workshop in Manama.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the Agriculture Ministry announcing that the import of cattle and livestock from international markets to Palestine would start on January 1, 2020.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida spotlighted Haaretz report Even After Weekend Violence, Israel and Hamas Moving Toward Long-term Gaza Calm.

It added that Belgian officials cancelled their participation in a trade delegation to Israel.

K.F.