RAMALLAH, Monday, June 08, 2020 (WAFA) – The ongoing demolition of Palestinian structures besides to the confirmed new novel coronavirus cases in the occupied Palestinian territories and the diaspora dominated today’s front page headlines in the dailies.

Al-Ayyam and al-Quds reported that Israeli forces and settlers carried out a series of assaults and demolitions across the West Bank.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida elaborated that Israeli forces demolished Palestinian street vendors’ kiosks in the vicinity of Qalandia military checkpoint, north of Jerusalem.

They added that Israeli forces delivered military orders to demolish two Palestinian houses and a structure to the east of Yatta in the southern Hebron district.

al-Hayat al-Jadida said that settlers tore down a retaining wall in Beit Anoun village, northeast of Hebron, and stole Palestinian harvest from Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

Additionally, al-Ayyam said that Israeli police banned a number of Palestinians entry into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, detained and summoned others.

Al-Quds explained that 24 Palestinians were banned entry into al-Quds and the mosque compound.

Highlighting COVID-19 spread among Palestinians, the dailies reported Health Minister Mai Alkaila confirming eight new COVID-19 cases in the southern West Bank town of Halhoul.

She was also reported in al-Ayyam confirming that three coronavirus cases recovered in Beit Ula town, northwest of Hebron.

The dailies also reported the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry announcing that two Palestinians died due to the virus in Kuwait.

The death of senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah at the age of 62 in Damascus hit the front page headlines in the dailies.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his condolences to the Shallah family.

According to al-Quds, the Israeli occupation authorities transferred the ownership of the Jordan-era post office in the occupied city of Jerusalem to a settler organization, and classified church institutions as public facilities.

Regarding Israel’s impending move to annex large swaths of the West Bank, al-Quds said that the Union of Palestinian Communities and Organizations in Europe called on the European Union to prevent the annexation move.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is scheduled to hold an extraordinary meeting this week to discuss Israel’s annexation threats.

Chilean Foreign Minister Teodoro Ribera was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida warning that Israel’s annexation move would have grave consequences on the peace prospects and the two-state solution.

It said that the Arab Parliament called on the UN Security Council and the UN to take immediate and decisive measures to prevent the annexation move.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the Palestinian factions condemned Hamas for casting doubt on the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) representation of the Palestinian people and slams it as being aligned with the US-Zionist conspiracy.

Al-Ayyam reported that a Palestinian faction leader in Gaza slammed the visit by the chairman of the Qatari Committee for Gaza Reconstruction, Mohammad al-Emadi, to Gaza as being intended to keep Gaza away from confronting the Israeli occupation. 

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