RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 11, 2020 (WAFA) – An Israeli decision to demolish the family homes of three Palestinian prisoners as a punitive measure for resisting its occupation was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies today.
In addition to this, the papers reported on the Israeli army crackdown on the weekly anti-occupation protests in some West Bank villages, but mainly in Kufr Qaddoum in the northern districts where dozens suffered from teargas suffocation.
While these topics occupied the main front-page story spot in al-Quds and al-Ayyam, the third daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida had it lower on the front page and opted to highlight as its main front-page story the meeting yesterday in Ramallah of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
It said the PLO called on the International Criminal Court to start investigating Israeli officials responsible for their war crimes against the Palestinian people and on the European Union to cancel its new conditions for financial support for Palestinian civil society organizations.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam highlighted remarks made by President Mahmoud Abbas at the PLO meeting in which he said that he is determined to hold national elections in Palestine as soon as possible.
Al-Ayyam reported on an Israeli campaign to build thousands of housing units in the illegal settlements in occupied Jerusalem and its environs and said Israeli Defense Minister Neftali Bennett has appointed an official to be in charge of implementing Israeli sovereignty over Area C of the occupied West Bank.
Al-Quds said Israeli and international peace activists held a solidarity visit to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, which has been under constant harassment from the Israeli police.
It also said thousands of people performed the dawn prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in a step seen to challenge Israeli attempts to change the status quo at the Muslim holy site.
It quoted the Jerusalem District Electricity Company saying that the Israel Electricity Company was behind the power cuts in its concession areas over the past days.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported on these topics and also said that Israel has released a Syrian prisoner, which was also reported in the other dailies.
International news such as the repercussion of the crashing of the plane in Iran, attempts to impeach US President Donald Trump and the protests in Jordan against the gas deal with Israel were reported on the front page of the three dailies today.
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