RAMALLAH, July 30, 2011 (WAFA) – The Arab Spring revolts dominated Saturday newspaper headlines, occupying more than half of the front pages in the two dailies, Al-Quds and Al-Ayyam.

Al-Quds daily ran a headline across the entire front page saying “Millions demonstrate in Cairo, Amman, Hama, Sana and Manama.” Al-Ayyam front page headline across half the front page was from Syria. “Thirteen civilians killed, many wounded in the ‘Your Silence Kills Us’ Friday,” said the headline.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported on the Arab revolts, but the story was printed lower on the front page under a picture of thousands of protesters in the Syrian city of Hama. Al-Ayyam and Al-Quds had the same picture on their front pages.

However, the top front page headline in Al-Hayat al-Jadida was on the official Palestinian denial of any negotiations with Israel. “The president’s office denies any negotiations with Israel,” says the headline.

The weekly protests in the West Bank against Israel’s settlements and the wall also occupied a large section of the front pages of all three Arabic dailies.

Dozens injured and many suffered from tear gas inhalation in the weekly protests in several West Bank locations, said the three dailies. The papers also reported on Jewish settlers setting crops in the Nablus area village of Burin on fire.

Al-Quds has stories on its front page from the Hebrew press on a deal between Israel and the Greek Orthodox patriarchate before the current patriarch was named to head the church, as well as on meetings between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian negotiation Saeb Erekat, and on the discrimination against Palestinian workers at Rami Levi supermarket chain in Israel.

M.A.