RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 30, 2021 (WAFA) - The three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today highlighted the Israeli army crackdown on the peaceful Palestinian anti-occupation, anti-settlement protests in the West Bank.
The main front-page story headline in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida dailies said that nine people were injured in clashes between residents of Kufr Qaddoum and the Israeli occupation army and that in another incident, Palestinians confronted Israeli settlers who broke into Khan al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village, in the north of the West Bank.
Al-Quds daily, while it also reported on the clashes and the Israeli army crackdown on the protests, said on the top of its front page that 342 new housing units are going to be built in an illegal Israeli settlement in Beit Safafa neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem.
The other top front-page story in the three dailies had to do with the coronavirus pandemic. They said that 11 people have died and 575 new cases were yesterday recorded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Al-Ayyam said one death and 124 new corona cases were also recorded in East Jerusalem over two days, while one death and 500 new cases were recorded yesterday among Palestinians in the diaspora.
It also said that the first batch of the Russian corona vaccine is expected in Palestine in the next two days.
The top front-page story in al-Quds daily highlighted confirmation from the European Union that the Pfizer vaccine had nothing to do with recent deaths among people who got the shot.
It quoted a study that said two shots from Pfizer prevent infection from all coronaviruses.
It also said, quoting Israeli media, that Israel plans to send 5000 Pfizer shots to the Palestinian Authority this week.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted senior Fatah official Hussein al-Sheikh welcoming remarks by the US representative to the United Nations Security Council on relations with Palestine.
Al-Ayyam said there is a legal hurdle in front of reopening the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington that was closed by the former US administration.
Al-Quds said the US Agency for International Development (USAID) got in contact with Palestinian organizations in order to resume their funding after it was stopped by the former US administration.
On the news of the Palestinian elections, al-Quds quoted a leading Fatah official saying the incarcerated Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti wants to run for president in the coming Palestinian elections but not in an alliance with ousted Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan.
It reported on the story of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy from Isawiyya neighborhood of East Jerusalem who told how he was tortured and received electric shocks when he was detained by Israeli forces.
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