RAMALLAH, Friday, December 06, 2019 (WAFA) – The latest spate of demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures besides to Israeli settlers’ attacks against Palestinians across the West Bank dominated the front page headlines in Friday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
The dailies reported that Israeli occupation authorities demolished four Palestinian residential structures, a blacksmith workshop and a car wash in the West Bank.
Israeli forces demolished four residential structures in Maghayer al-‘Abeed area near Masafer Yatta, a blacksmith workshop in Adh-Dhahiriya city, southwest of Hebron city, and a car wash at the main entrance of al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem.
Covering the latest wave of settlers’ attacks against the Palestinian people, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that settlers set up a mobile home on Palestinian land belonging to the villagers of Burqa, located to the north of Nablus city.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that settlers sealed off the road connecting the West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus, also known as Route 60, hurling stones at Palestinian vehicles traveling along it.
Al-Ayyam added in this regard that settlers also attacked Palestinian farmers in Umm al-Arayes village, located to the east of Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
The dailies said that scores of Palestinian female students suffocated from tear gas fired by Israeli forces who raided Anata town, east of Jerusalem.
Covering internal Israeli affairs, the dailies said that a number of Israeli officials close to Premier Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted in the case involving corruption in the purchase of German submarines and ships.
Leader of Yisrael Beiteinu Avigdor Lieberman was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida saying that Israel was heading towards third parliamentary elections as there was no room to form a unity or narrow government.
Netanyahu was offered clemency in exchange for his resignation, read a headline in al-Quds, but, according to al-Hayat al-Jadida, he rejected the offer.
AL-Quds highlighted the signature ceremony for two agreements signed by Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and the French agency for Development (Agence Française de Développement- AFD).
The agreements are concerned with supporting the water sector and development in the West Bank Area C.
It added that France has provided a total of €404 million to Palestine in the last 20 years.
Netanyahu was reported in al-Quds and al-Ayyam revealing that contacts were underway for a long-term ceasefire with Hamas.
He was also reported in al-Ayyam saying that it would difficult for Israel to ‘annex’ the Jordan Valley soon.
Italian Foreign Ministry was reported in al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida slamming the construction of Israeli colonial settlements in the West Bank as illegitimate and reiterating that the two-state solution is the only means of ensuring a lasting peace.
According to al-Quds, the Society of St. Yves, which is the Catholic Center for Human Rights, successfully repealed three indictments against Palestinian families in Jerusalem.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the Israeli human rights group B‘Tselem celebrated the 30th anniversary of its establishment in the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, which faces the imminent threat of demolition and forcible displacement.
B‘Tselem was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida saying that Israeli occupation authorities have demolished 165 Palestinian houses in Jerusalem since the beginning of 2019.
According to al-Quds and al-Ayyam, attorneys representing the victims of the Israeli raid on the Turkish aid flotilla to Gaza in 2010 would appeal the International Criminal Court’s decision not to press charges against Israel.
Member of Hamas’ political burea Mousa Doudin was reported in al-Quds revealing that five states have attempted to conclude a prisoner exchange agreement between the military arm of Hamas, Izz Ad-Din al-Qassam, and the Israeli occupation authorities.
Al-Quds spotlighted the Independent’s report Women of Gaza: Empowered and resilient.
It said that Israeli police kick-started a campaign to change all surveillance cameras installed around Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda’s Annual Report on Preliminary Examination Activities in the Situation in Palestine.
Bensouda was reported in al-Ayyam believing that it is time to take a decision on the situation in Palestine.
Foreign Minister Riyad Malki was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida slamming the report as unbalanced.
According to al-Ayyam, Israeli military conducted drills using live ammunition in the northern Jordan Valley.
It said that Gaza Great March of Return protests will be commenced today after three-week pause.
The Palestine Monetary Authority was reported in al-Ayyam denying that there was any problem with regards to exchanging shekels for foreign currencies.
It was also reported affirming that “the problems related to the crisis arising from the surplus of shekel in the banks operating in Palestine are routine.”
According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, the Palestinian foreign Ministry summoned the Brazilian ambassador to Palestine Francisco Mauro Brasil de Holanda.
Holanda was summoned over the visit of Brazilian diplomat Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is the son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, to the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Psagot near Ramallah.
It reported the Foreign Ministry stating that it was following up on the case of Ihab al-Hasheem from Gaza who was found dead in his apartment in the Republic of Moldova.
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