RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 15, 2019 (WAFA) – A statement made by President Mahmoud Abbas on the upcoming presidential and legislative elections made headlines of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Sunday.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam said that President Abbas stated, during a meeting with Egyptian intellectuals in Egypt‘s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, that there’s a strong will for holding upcoming elections in Palestine as the way of protecting the Palestinian cause and the unity of the Palestinians.
The dailies added President Abbas arrived on Friday in Egypt to participate in the third edition of the World Youth Forum, where he is scheduled to hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi on the sideline of the forum‘s activities.
The papers said that extremist Israeli Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Bat Ayin attacked with stones Palestinian vehicles driving near the village of al-Jaba’a, near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, causing partial damages to at least one of them.
They also added that a Palestinian citizen from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabir was forced to demolish his own home after he was informed by the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem that unless he demolishes it himself, the municipality would demolish it and force him to pay exorbitant fees.
The papers reported that Israeli soldiers manning a gate set up by the military in the apartheid barrier near the village of Nazlat Issa, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm, shot and injured two Palestinians, one in the leg and the other in the shoulder.
Al-Quds said that the Arab League and Jordan welcomed the United Nations vote renewing the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) for three more years.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Quds said that Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh attended the “Canaanite Palestine” conference in Ramallah, where he stated that “Palestinians were born in this land and will remain there”.
Al-Quds said the Israeli judiciary may rule out the possibility of granting amnesty to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing corruption charges.
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