RAMALLAH, Tuesday, January 14, 2020 (WAFA) – The planned demolition of Palestinian houses in Hebron district besides to the planned release of a Palestinian prisoner who ended his 114-day-long hunger strike dominated the front page headlines in Tuesday’s issue of the three dailies.
The dailies reported that Israeli occupation authorities notified eight Palestinian households to demolish their houses in Massafer Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli settlers attacked with stones houses of the Palestinian villagers of Madama, located to the south of Nablus city.
According to al-Quds, Israeli occupation authorities seized 127 dunams of Palestinian land, located to the west of Salfit city.
The dailies said that occupation authorities ordered a halt on the land reclamation project in al-Mughayyir village, located to the east of Ramallah city.
They said that Ahmad Zahran ended his 113-day-long hunger strike following an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to end his administrative detention.
Highlighting the situation of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody, al-Quds said that IPS stormed section Israel’s Ramon Prison and transferred prisoners from one prison to another.
Al-Ayyam elaborated that IPS transferred 33 imprisoned Palestinian children from Ofer Prison to Damun Prison ]without the presence of adult representatives[.
According to al-Quds, the Israeli Jerusalem District Court repealed a previous ruling in favor of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, approving the fraudulent sale of three strategically located properties in Jerusalem’s Old City to settler groups.
It should be reiterated though that Israeli courts, seen as the last judicial recourse against demolitions, in fact are complicit in ensuring an overwhelming Jewish majority in Jerusalem and perpetuating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
The dailies spotlighted the Palestinian cabinet’s decision to establish a technical university and the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission.
They added that the cabinet decried the large-scale demolitions by Israel of Palestinian structures in the Jordan Valley.
According to al-Quds, Palestinian-Israeli lawmaker Ahmad Tibi warns the Israeli Blue-White party against supporting the annexation of the Jordan Valley to Israel.
Al-Ayyam said that a Palestinian youth succumbed to his wounds he had sustained from Israeli military gunfire while participating in the Great March of Return protests in Gaza several years ago.
It said that Israeli excavations have caused serious cracks and collapses to the Palestinian houses in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Bab al-Silsila.
It highlighted the Israeli government’s decision to set up four new detention centers to accommodate 4,000 prisoners.
According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called on the international community to prevent Israel from implementing the plans aimed to annex the West Bank.
Al-Ayyam highlighted Haaretz’ report titled Israel to Compensate Five Palestinians for Property Destroyed in Second Intifada.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli occupation authorities admitted that the killing of Aisha al-Rabi, a Palestinian mother of eight, by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank in October 2018 was a “hostile attack on nationalist grounds”.
Regionally, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Jordan’s King Abdullah II stressing his country’s commitment to its role in safeguarding Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem.
He was also reported underscoring the importance of countering any attempts that may alter the historical and legal status of Jerusalem.
Highlighting his an interview with France24, al-Ayyam reported Abdullah revealing that dialogue between Jordan and Israel has been “on pause” for two years and reiterating that the two-state solution is the only way to settle the Palestinian question.
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