RAMALLAH, Thursday, September 10, 2020 (WAFA) – The Arab League’s refusal to condemn the recent UAE-Israeli normalization agreement dominated the front page headlines in Thursday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
Al-Quds reported that the Arab League rejected the Palestinian draft resolution that condemned the UAE-Israeli normalization agreement as a violation of the Arab Peace Initiative.
Al-Ayyam highlighting the contradiction in the final communiqué of the Arab foreign ministers’ meeting.
It said that the Arab League refused to condemn the UAE-Israeli normalization agreement, while, at the same time, it affirmed commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida opted to highlight the Arab foreign ministers’ commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative, and their reiterated rejection of Israel’s annexation plans, which they deemed as a “new war crime”.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Palestinians rallied in rejection of normalization of ties with and recognition of Israel in the West Bank and Gaza.
Furthermore, the dailies said that Israeli occupation authorities restricted Jerusalem Governor Adnan Gaith’s movement, preventing him from contacting over 50 people, including President Mahmoud Abbas and Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh.
The dailies said that four Palestinians, including a woman and an infant, were killed and nine others injured in two traffic accidents near Ramallah and Tulkarem.
Al-Quds said that Israeli occupation authorities advanced major colonial settlement construction plans on the eastern and western rural sections of Bethlehem district.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida elaborated that the authorities remapped large swaths of Palestinian land to the east and west of Bethlehem to make room for settlement construction.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the occupation authorities issued demolition orders against four Palestinian houses in the Hebron district towns of Bani Na‘im and al-Ramadin.
According to al-Quds, Israeli military vehicles infiltrated the border to the east of Gaza, as the navy opened fire on fishermen sailing offshore Gaza city.
Al-Ayyam said that dozens of Palestinians suffocated from tear gas as Israeli forces raided al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron district.
Al-Quds highlighted other suffocation cases from Israeli military tear gas to the south of Jenin and confrontations sparked by a military raid in Dheisha refugee camp, southeast of Bethlehem.
According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli military bulldozers uprooted 22 olive trees in Ras Karkar village, west of Ramallah.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Palestine recorded 696 new novel coronavirus infections and two fatalities in the last 24 hours.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that 767 recovery cases were recorded in the occupied Palestinian territories in the past 24 hours.
Al-Quds presented different statistics, showing that there were 1,038 new infections and three fatalities in the last 24 hours in the West Bank and Gaza.
Among the new cases, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that 255 infections and one fatality were recorded in Jerusalem.
The Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry was reported in al-Quds announcing that five new infections were recorded among Palestinians in the US.
According to al-Quds, a Palestinian ministerial committee has designated the Jordan Valley as a priority investment promotion area.
According to al-Quds, the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) assaulted Palestinian detainees in Ofer, a notorious Israeli detention facility, west of Ramallah, and transferred 34 detainees to other detention facilities.
Regionally, al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Chad denying media reports that it was considering relocating its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.
A Serbian official was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida affirming that that there was “no definitive decision yet” on relocating the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.
The head of the Israeli bank of Hapoalim Dove Kotler was reported in al-Ayyam expecting to strike deals soon with UAE banks.
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