RAMALLAH, Thursday, February 24, 2022 (WAFA) – News about the funeral procession of the 14-year-old Palestinian teen who was murdered by Israeli gunfire near Bethlehem hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Thursday.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said dozens of Palestinians participated in the funeral procession of 14-year-old Mohammad Shehadeh who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank.
The dailies added that following the funeral, several Palestinians suffocated after inhaling tear gas fired at them by Israeli forces during clashes that broke out in the town, where the Israeli forces used rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades against residents, causing several suffocations cases among them. They were all treated at the scene.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that the Palestinian presidency said that there will be no peace in the region without the establishment of the independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Responding to statements by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz in which he said that the Palestinians will not have a state, but an entity, presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that the State of Palestine is recognized by the United Nations General Assembly on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The papers said that the Israeli occupation forces demolished four Palestinian-owned shelters and a shack in the village of Lasifer, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
They added that Israeli army demolished four residential shelters in Shaab al-Batm hamlet in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank, leading to the displacement of 40 people.
Classes at al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village school, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, were disrupted again today and for the third day in a row after Israeli soldiers and settlers blocked the village entrance and prevented the students from reaching their school located off the main Ramallah-Nablus road, as reported in the dailies.
Al-Quds said that Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah celebrated the decision of an Israeli occupation court to freeze the eviction of the Salem family from their home in the western part of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, adding that less than 24 hours after the decision was made, Itamar Bin Gvir, an Israeli right-wing and fascist member of the parliament, the Knesset, returned to the neighborhood to once again incite against its residents and provoke violence.
The papers said that COVID-19 claimed the life of 19 people in Palestine in the last 24 hours while 2042 people were confirmed infected with coronavirus.
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