RAMALLAH, Monday, December 28, 2020 (WAFA) – The injury of a pregnant Palestinian woman and a medic after an Israeli army unit broke into Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
At the same time, the dailies highlighted Israeli army raids of West Bank villages, during which several Palestinians were detained, as well as demolition orders of homes and structures were handed out to residents.
They also reported about a new Israeli settlement plan west of Salfit in the north of the West Bank.
Al-Ayyam said that al-Qaoun valley in the northern Jordan Valley is going to be open to the Palestinian landowners and farmers for the first time since 1974 after an Israeli court issued an order to evacuate it from settlers and to return the land to its Palestinian owners.
While Al-Ayyam made the Israeli attacks its main front-page stories, al-Hayat al-Jadida opted to highlight the latest figures with coronavirus in Palestine and said 28 people have died of corona yesterday and 1506 new cases were recorded.
It quoted Health Minister Mai Alkaila saying that the peak of the current wave of the pandemic is going to be in the coming two months.
The corona pandemic in Palestine, the region and the world was also highlighted on the front page of all three Palestinian Arabic dailies, and al-Quds daily said that 26,000 Palestinians in Jerusalem have received the vaccine so far and more are expected to get it in the near future.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted a tourism official saying that losses to the Palestinian tourism sector as a result of the corona pandemic have exceeded $1.5 billion.
It also wondered if the Russian vaccine is going to arrive in Palestine any time soon.
Al-Ayyam said Israel has started the third lockdown since the outbreak of the disease earlier this year.
The main front-page story in al-Quds touched on a totally different subject: the latest events at Nabi Mousa Shrine between Jerusalem and Jericho in the east of the West Bank.
It said that hundreds of Palestinians held prayers at the shrine in response to attempts to undermine its sanctity as a holy place when a music party was held at the site the night before that forced area residents to break into the party and kick the people out.
The paper said neither the Waqf Ministry nor the Ministry of Tourism, which are in charge of the shrine, took responsibility for issuing a permit for the party.
Reporting on this topic, al-Ayyam said the government has decided to form a committee to investigate the party held at Nabi Mousa Shrine.
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