RAMALLAH, June 1, 2013 (WAFA) – The three dailies highlighted Saturday statements and ideas made by US Secretary of State John Kerry to resume Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and to rekindle the peace process.
Al-Quds headline read: “Kerry proposes a settlement to control the Jordan Valley under mutual Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli supervision.”
Al-Ayyam quoted officials saying that President Mahmoud Abbas is being pressured into resuming negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite of the lack of an Israeli pledge to freeze settlement activity or accept negotiations based on a state within 1967 borders.
Abbas stressed in several statements that “there is no solution without Jerusalem; prisoners must be released and settlement construction stopped.”
The three dailies printed photos of youths demonstrating in one way or another against Israeli settlements and the segregation wall in the villages of Kufr Qaddoum and Ni’lin.
They said a 17-year-old resident of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem was critically injured when hit in the stomach by an Israeli army bullet during confrontations near the camp.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported on the discovery of a mass grave containing dozens of skeletons belonging to Palestinians who were massacred in 1948 in Jaffa.
Al-Quds featured Israeli sources confirming that 4195 settlement units were approved and are now ready to be constructed in settlements in East Jerusalem.
It reported on the united Church of Canada, the biggest and oldest church in Canada, voting in favor of a boycott of Israeli settlement products.
It said “the terrorist price tag” Israeli organization has desecrated a Christian church in East Jerusalem with anti-Christ slogans spray painted on its wall.
A story in al-Quds quoted Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayeh, saying that financial support for Hamas was affected by the Arab revolts because it was directed to other countries and so was the Iranian aid.
The paper featured Israeli experts warning of a potential cyber attack on Israeli websites on Saturday.
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