RAMALLAH, April 11, 2012 (WAFA) – Al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper Wednesday highlighted letters from the Palestinian Authority’s UN representative to United Nations officials calling on them to condemn the Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The daily said Riyad Mansour delivered the letters to the presidents of the Security Council and the General Assembly as well as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling on the UN bodies to condemn the Israeli settlement activities because they destroy the two-state solution.

The main article featured on the front page of al-Quds daily focused on the opening of the Bilin 7th Annual Conference for Popular Struggle in the Ramallah-area village of Bilin, during which Prime Minister Salam Fayyad praised the popular non-violent resistance against Israeli practices.

The newspaper said Fayyad called on the Quartet to restore its credibility and resume its role to hold Israel accountable for its violations.

The prime headline in al-Ayyam newspaper quoted the UN-Arab League special envoy on Syria, Kofi Annan, saying the Syrian regime did not show any signs of peace offering. The daily said the Security Council called on Syria to halt battles by Thursday.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted in red the deteriorating health condition of Palestinian prisoner Bilal Diab, who has been on an open-ended hunger strike for 41 days protesting his arrest without charge or trial in Israeli jails.

Reporting from Egypt, al-Ayyam featured the Egyptian administrative court’s decision to suspend the Islamists-dominated committee appointed to draft a new constitution, which formed a setback to the Islamic Brotherhood party.

An opinion piece by Hani Habib in al-Ayyam newspaper highlighted the new political haggling between Hamas and Fatah movements following news that President Mahmoud Abbas is going to do a reshuffle on the Palestinian cabinet of Salam Fayyad.

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