RAMALLAH, Monday, June 13, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli demolitions in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank, an army jeep running over and injuring an elderly Palestinian man in the village of Husan, near Bethlehem, and the uprooting of some 100 olive trees after razing land in al-Khader town, also near Bethlehem, were highlighted, among other Israeli violations, on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.

Al-Quds daily headlined: “Injuries and demolitions in the West Bank and houses targeted in the Gaza Strip.”

Al-Ayyam daily said in its main front-page story headline: “Settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, demolitions east of Yatta, and workers chased in Tulkarm.”

The third daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida, said in a headline on the same topic: “The occupation’s bulldozers uproot trees and demolish homes; stop construction orders issued.

The main front-page story in al-Hayat al-Jadida touched on Norway’s decision to label settlement products and Palestinians welcoming this decision while calling on other European countries to follow suit.

Al-Quds said in another story that tenders were issued for the construction of settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem.

It said, based on a report by a local research center, that Israel demolished 1032 Palestinian structures last year, including 36 homes, displacing 1834 people, including 954 children.

Al-Ayyam, in a report by Reuters, said the largest Palestinian displacement in decades looms in Masafer Yatta after the May 4 Israeli court ruling that gave the green light to the Israeli army to demolish 12 communities in Masafer Yatta displacing some 2000 Palestinians in order to turn the area into a military training zone while not touching illegal Israeli settlements built in the same area.

The paper said that the Israeli army was proceeding with its survey of the people in Masafer Yatta in preparation for dislodging them.

It said an Israeli government committee approved the Israeli apartheid law that gives settlers in the occupied West Bank special status while discriminating against the indigenous Palestinian population in order to bring it before the Israeli parliament for a new vote after it failed to pass last week.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida printed stories on meetings Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh held with foreign dignitaries at his office in Ramallah and quoted him saying that there are positive signs the European Union may resume financial aid to the Palestinians.

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