RAMALLAH, Tuesday, April 28, 2020 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted today on their front page topics that have to do with coronavirus, remarks by Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on the situation of the Palestinian economy as a result of the corona pandemic and the burial of a Palestinian who died in an Israeli jail.
Al-Ayyam said five new coronavirus cases were confirmed in occupied East Jerusalem yesterday, which raised the number there to around 160 and two deaths. It also said two have recovered in the city and nine others in the Gaza Strip.
At the same time, said the paper, two American-Palestinians have died in the state of Michigan.
Al-Quds highlighted remarks by Shtayyeh in which he said that the coronavirus pandemic has dealt a staggering blow to the Palestinian budget and deficit has reached $1.4 billion.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted the burial in the West Bank village of Aboud of the prisoner Nour Barghouti, who died in an Israeli jail after he fell in the bathroom.
It also said Muslim leaders have warned against Israel reopening the locked-down Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city to Jewish fanatics, threatening to open as a result all its gates closed as a result of corona pandemic to Muslim worshippers, holding Israel responsible for any developments.
Al-Quds said fanatic Jewish organizations have demanded reopening the Muslim holy site for so-called visits by their followers.
All the papers covered the above topics in one way or another on their front page.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the Arab foreign minister are going to meet at the Arab League in Cairo on Thursday to discuss Israel’s plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.
Al-Quds said in a report from Washington that the American administration advised Israel to wait on the annexation step until the end of August after Israel has said it plans to start this on July 1.
It also said Israeli settlers chopped trees in the north of the West Bank.
Al-Ayyam said Palestinians in Gaza downed an Israeli drone.
It also said Egypt has started to build a fence along its borders with Gaza.
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