RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 26, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli army shooting and injuring of two Palestinians near the Dahriyia crossing in the south of the West Bank as they were trying to reach their workplaces inside Israel, demolition of Palestinian-owned structures, as well as Israeli seizure of hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land to establish hundreds of housing units in illegal settlements were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
Al-Ayyam, al-Hayat al-Jadida, and al-Quds dailies highlighted the shooting of the two workers as well as Israeli demolition of Palestinian-owned structures in Masafer Yatta and notices of demolition in other areas of the occupied West Bank.
Al-Quds said in its main front-page story headline that Israel seized 718 dunums of Palestinian land in different areas of the occupied territories in order to build 923 housing units in its illegal settlements. It said Israel waited for US President Joe Biden to finish his visit to the region before approving these plans.
The paper quoted Peace Now movement saying Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has put forward a plan to build 4469 housing units in illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
In other news, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said President Mahmoud Abbas had a routine physical checkup during an event at the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah and that the results were all good.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the cabinet discussed Israeli plan to impose the Israeli curriculum in East Jerusalem schools and ways to fight it.
Al-Ayyam said the Palestinian lawyers held a protest outside the government office in Ramallah against decisions by law that affect the justice system.
It quoted Minister of Justice Mohammad Shalaldeh saying that he is studying the demands of the lawyers to make his recommendations to the president.
It said 14 people have died of coronavirus in Palestine last week and over 10,000 new cases were confirmed, and 13 people died in Israel while over 5600 new cases were confirmed in one day on Sunday.
Al-Quds said dozens of Palestinian freedom fighters incarcerated in Israel went on hunger strike in solidarity with the two hunger striking prisoners Raed Rayyan and Khalil Awawda.
It also said the Dweik family was able to win another reprieve in the eviction order against its house in Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem when the High Court returned the case to the Magistrate Court to reconsider the demand by Jewish settlers to evict the family under the pretext Jews owned the house since before 1948.
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