RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 03, 2022 (WAFA) – News about the recent Israeli escalation in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, as well as in other areas in the occupied West Bank, hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Thursday.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that theIsraeli government gave the green light to fascist Israelis headed by racist right-wing lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir to hold a rally in the Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Dozens of right-wing Israelis gathered in the neighborhood around the Salem family home, waving Israeli flags and dancing in the street.
The neighborhood's Palestinian residents and supporters confronted the fascists as police intervened to remove the Palestinian supporters out of the neighborhood, breaking into homes and forcibly removing them from the area.
The dailies said that Israeli authorities razed Palestinian stores in Hizma town, northeast of Jerusalem as well as a commercial structure in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.
They added that Israeli settlers chased after Gundelia harvesters to the east of Kallet Makhoul area in the northern Jordan Valley.
Israeli settlers vandalized some 11 Palestinian vehicles in Iskaka village, east of the occupied West Bank city of Salift, as reported in the dailies.
The papers said that the Israeli occupation forces attacked the funeral held at Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, causing several suffocation cases, for a Palestinian they have shot and killed the day before, adding that the soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at the participants in the funeral and at homes in the refugee camp causing dozens of suffocation cases.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh chaired the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the government-owned and run Istiqlal (independence) Bank for Investment and Development, a year after it was established by a presidential decree.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported ten people have died in Palestine in the last 24 hours after contracting Covid-19 and 1071 new cases were recorded.
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