RAMALLAH, Tuesday, April 19, 2022 (WAFA) – News about the phone conversations President Mahmoud Abbas had with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Russian President Vladimir Putin hit the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II discussed over the phone the latest developments in Palestine, especially what is happening in the city of Jerusalem of daily incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli extremists under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces who act brutally towards the innocent worshipers in flagrant violation of international law and the legal and historical status quo at the Mosque.
President Abbas also briefed King Abdullah on the latest contacts and correspondence carried out by Palestine.
The dailies added that President Abbas and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed over the phone the latest developments in Palestine and internationally, as well as bilateral relations between their two countries.
President Putin stressed Russia's firm position in support of the rights of the Palestinian people, and that Russia will continue to accord its political support to the Palestinian cause in all international forums, and what is happening in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
A Palestinian girl succumbed to wounds she sustained after she was shot by Israeli forces last week, the papers reported. They said that Hanan Mahmoud Khadour, 18, from the village of Faqqua, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, was shot in the stomach while she was on her way to school during a military raid into the city on April 9.
The papers reported that eight Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire during confrontations and military raids in several areas in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces emptied al-Aqsa Mosque of its Muslim worshipers in order to secure the entry of Israeli Jewish fanatics and settlers into the courtyards of the mosque, as reported in the dailies.
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