RAMALLAH, May 7, 2012 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies Monday highlighted the Arab League’s decision to call on the United Nations General Assembly to hold an exceptional session to discuss the issue of Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli jails.

The prime headline in al-Ayyam newspaper said the Arab League’s General Secretariat held an emergency meeting on Sunday and decided to ask the UN General Assembly to send an international commission to probe conditions in Israeli jails.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida featured Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s visit to a sit-in tent in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails, and printed a photo of Fayyad kissing the hand of a prisoner’s mother.

The dominant front page item in al-Quds daily was the French presidential elections, reporting that the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande won by 51.8% of votes over Nicolas Sarkozy.

The newspaper printed a picture depicting Hollande saluting supporters in the city of Toulouse and Sarkozy leaving a hall in Paris.

The three dailies reported that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday to hold early parliamentary elections in September instead of October 2013.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida featured President Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with the New Zealand foreign minister, Murray McCully, in Ramallah during which Abbas stressed the Palestinian leadership’s persistence to implement the reconciliation agreement and end the internal division.

Al-Quds editorial tackled the Arab League’s resolution to head to UN on the issue of the prisoners and called on for more local, regional and international support to the striking prisoners who started an open-ended hunger strike on April 17 protesting their living conditions and administrative detention.

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