RAMALLAH, Thursday, October 8, 2020 (WAFA) – Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian olive harvesters across the West Bank dominated the front page headlines in today’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
The dailies reported that Israeli settlers torched scores of olive trees in Deir Ballut town, west of Salfit. Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that 50 olive trees were torched.
The dailies added that settlers attacked Palestinian farmers picking their olive trees in Huwara town, south of Nablus. Al-Quds added that three farmers were injured in the attack, while al-Ayyam said four were injured.
Al-Hayar al-Jadida commenced this story with a red bold title reading: Palestine’s olives are under fire, while al-Ayyam commenced it with the title: Settlers unleash their annual war against olives.
Al-Ayyam also reported that Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian-registered vehicles south of Nablus.
According to al-Quds and al-Ayyam, 90 settlers barged their way into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli forces rounded up 11 Palestinians in multiple West Bank raids.
Highlighting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dailies said that 510 Palestinians tested positive for the highly contagious virus and six others died of it in the occupied territories in the last 24 hours.
Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh’s remarks on tightening anti-coronavirus measures as a potential wave is set to spread in winter also hit the front page headlines in the dailies.
Shtayyeh was reported in the dailies announcing that the government was working on hiring hundreds of doctors, nurses and medical staff to help curb the pandemic outbreak.
He was also reported in al-Quds calling on Arab states that have normalized ties with Israel to “learn from history” and not be deceived by the false US-Israeli promises.
Al-Quds spotlighted the discriminatory allocation of building zoning to the Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya.
It said that the neighborhood remains an isolated enclave although Israeli occupation authorities approved the neighborhood’s new master plan, which includes 54 modifications.
It also reported that a Hamas delegation arrived to Moscow for talks on the developments on the Palestinian question.
It printed a story titled The Arab League is searching for a president after five Arab countries refused to assume the organization’s presidency after Palestine resigned the position in protest at the organization’s failure to take a stand against the UAE-Israeli normalization agreement.
Regionally, the dailies said that Jordan’s monarch Abdullah II appointed palace aide Bisher al-Khasawneh as the country’s new prime minister.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Kuwait’s new Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah named Sheikh Meshaal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah as crown prince.
Highlighting the findings of an opinion poll by the Doha-based Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies, al-Hayat al-Jadida said that 88 percent of Arabs disapprove recognition of Israel.
It added that Doha and London stressed the necessity of finding a just solution to the Palestinian question.
Chief of Pakistan’s Ulema Council Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating that his country would not normalize relations with Israel before the Palestinian people gains their rights.
It said that Turkey support’s President Mahmoud Abbas’ call for an international conference with full powers to implement all resolutions on Palestine.
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