RAMALLAH, Monday, November 23, 2020 (WAFA) – The sharp rise in coronavirus cases in Palestine in recent days forced the Palestinian Arabic dailies to resume focusing their main front-page stories on this issue.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said in its top front-page story that Palestine recorded 16 corona-related fatalities and 1560 new cases in 24 hours.
Al-Ayyam had a similar top-story headline and added that 684 of the new cases were in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Al-Quds had the same headline in its story on coronavirus but lower on the front page, and said in a story on the top left corner of the front page quoting the director of World Health Organization’s office in Gaza that the coronavirus vaccines will net arrive in Gaza, whose health system may not last for more than two weeks, before eight months.
It quoted Minister of Health Mai Alkaila saying that her ministry is working on controlling the virus in hardest hit Nablus and Bethlehem districts in the West Bank.
The three dailies also reported on the pandemic in Israel, Jordan, and the world at large.
The main front-page story in al-Quds daily highlighted Israeli settlement activities in the occupied territories and said that a new settlement outpost was established in Burin village in the north of the West Bank while settlers kidnapped a youth in Beit Dajan.
Al-Ayyam also reported on these topics as well as attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers against Palestinian civilians.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported on the same topics and said the Israeli occupation forces are working on a full takeover of land of Palestinians claimed to be absent or displaced in occupied East Jerusalem.
It said the Israeli fanatic, Yehuda Glick, is raising money in the US in his efforts to change the status of Al-Haram Al-Sharif compound in Jerusalem, which includes Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, the third holiest site in Islam, into a Jewish temple.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Jordan, the official custodian over the Muslim holy places in Jerusalem, has condemned Israeli measures affecting the status quo at Al-Haram Al-Sharif.
The same paper said pro-Palestine groups in the US are getting ready to submit a demand to President-elect Joe Biden to cancel two anti-Palestine decisions from the outgoing administration.
Al-Ayyam reported on the Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the World Bank supported a solid waste project in Gaza with $3.25 million.
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