RAMALLAH, Saturday, March 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The weekly anti-occupation, anti-settlements Palestinian protests in the occupied territories and the Israeli army crackdown, as well as news from the president’s office, and the latest developments in Ukraine were highlighted on the front page of each of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
Al-Ayyam daily made the protests its main front-page story and said that dozens of people were injured in the Israeli army crackdown on the weekly Friday protests in the occupied territories.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida daily also highlighted the protests but lower on the front page, while it made the presidential news its main front-page stories. These included presidential decisions on the formation of the administrative courts, and another on the president giving a medal to the head of the Arab Scout Organization.
The third daily, al-Quds, continued to make news about the war in Ukraine as its main front-page story and said in this regard that as Washington warned Beijing against helping Moscow, the Russians entered Mariupol as they continue their offensive in Ukraine. It dedicated most of its front page to news and reactions to the war in Ukraine.
Other news published on the front page of the Palestinian dailies included stories about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visiting the United Arab Emirates, which al-Quds daily said was his first visit to an Arab country since the outbreak of violence in Syria in 2011.
It also said in another news item that residents of Jabal al-Mukabber neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem are planning tomorrow another protest outside the West Jerusalem Israeli municipality against the rise in house demolition orders issued for their neighborhood.
Al-Ayyam said in a front-page story that the situation in the Israeli prisons is tense as incarcerated Palestinian freedom fighters plan a general hunger strike in protest against rise in repression in the prisons.
It also said around 10,000 people took part in the annual Palestine marathon held yesterday in Bethlehem under the banner “right to movement” after a two-year suspension due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida daily said Palestine resumed import of Russian flour, as announced by the Ministry of Economy.
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