RAMALLAH, Thursday, December 05, 2019 (WAFA) – The demolition of Palestinian structures in Jerusalem district dominated the front page headlines in Thursday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that Israeli occupation authorities demolished two residential structures and a shack in Abu Nuwwar and Wadi Abu Hindi Bedouin communities, located to the southeast of Jerusalem.

Al-Quds said that Israeli forces sealed off the northern entrance to Nahalin town, located to the west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, further isolating the town from the surrounding villages.

It also reported that Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinians in the Jordan Valley.

Settlers riding horses chased Palestinian shepherds grazing their livestock in al-Farisiya village, east of Tubas city in the northern Jordan Valley.

Al-Ayyam said that settlers bulldozed Palestinian lands in the village of Burin, located to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, and in the northern Jordan Valley.

In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers ploughed some 200 dunams of Palestinian land in Khirbet Ein al-Hilweh.

On the other hand, al-Hayat al-Jadida opted to highlight the funeral of former presidential advisor Ahmad Abdelrahman, who died at the age of 76, in Ramallah.

It said that Abbas attended the funeral procession of Abdelrahman, who was laid to his rest.

It added that Abbas extended his condolences to the President of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah Al Burhan over factory fire victims.

Al-Quds said that leaders from the Izz Ad-Din al-Qassam, the military arm of Hamas, and Saraya al-Quds (al-Quds Brigades), the military arm of Islamic Jihad, arrived to Cairo to discuss proposals of clam in Gaza.

Al-Ayyam added in this regard that Hamas and Islamic Jihad delegations are discussing national and strategic issues in Cairo.

According to al-Quds, the US House of Representatives is scheduled within hours to vote on a resolution rejecting Israel’s annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories.

It highlighted calls made by human rights organizations that Israel allows imports to and exports from the besieged Gaza Strip and stops spraying pesticides herbicides and chemicals on Gaza farmlands.  

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the United Nations General Assembly adopted four pro-Palestine resolutions.

 Al-Quds spotlighted Haaretz’ report These settlers got an expropriated Palestinian plot of land from Israel. Now they rent it to Jerusalem’s municipality at a profit.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ashkelon Prison announced their intention to go on an open-ended hunger strike in protest against escalating repressive measures by the prison administration.

Al-Ayyam reported PLO-affiliated factions slamming the US-Israeli field hospital to be set up in the northern besieged Gaza Strip.

It also reported Hamas and Islamic Jihad saying that the construction of the hospital is a part of the understandings reached with Israel.

The Ministry of Agriculture was reported in al-Ayyam stating that Israeli occupation authorities released some 500 imported calves intended to the Palestinian market.

Secretary General of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stressing that there would be no solution to the Palestinian question without the establishment of the Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, Hamas-run security forces assaulted protestors who staged a sit-in to the east of Beit Lahia town against Hamas’ decision to lease state land to a private enterprise.

It added that Palestine assumed the chairmanship of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions.

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