RAMALLAH, Saturday, December 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinians were injured yesterday in the Israeli army crackdown on the weekly Friday protests in the occupied territories against the occupation and its settlement enterprise, said the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today in their main front-page story.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida daily said one person was shot by a live bullet while others were either hit by rubber-coated metal bullets or suffocated from tear gas fired by the soldiers.
Al-Quds daily said settlers, under army protection, opened a road through Palestinian-owned land in the town of Dura in the south of the West Bank to serve their expansionist policies.
The third daily, al-Ayyam, said Palestinians confronted wide-scale settler intrusions on their properties.
It also said that Israeli soldiers forced Palestinians to remove their clothes when passing through a checkpoint in Tel Rumeida neighborhood in the occupied part of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The three dailies said the Israeli army turned over yesterday the remains of two young Palestinians its forces killed in cold blood near Ramallah on October 3 and has been holding ever since. In that incident, soldiers opened fire at a car near Jalazon refugee camp without any reason killing two and injuring a third, who was treated at a hospital in Ramallah. The two will be buried today in their hometowns of Birzeit and nearby Jifna.
Al-Quds said the United Nations recognized the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination with 168 members voting in favor of this resolution, six opposed and eight abstained.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said UN experts have condemned the rise in settler violence and the Israeli army’s excessive use of force against the Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories.
Al-Ayyam said an Israeli settler official has called on the army to wage a military attack on Nablus.
The three dailies also highlighted on their front page the recent protests in Jordan against the rise in prices of fuel with al-Ayyam saying a security man was killed in the protests and two others were injured, while al-Quds said the Jordanian monarch said his government will take strong action against those who use weapons.
The dailies also reported on the developments in the formation of the Israeli government and said the Israeli parliament has approved in first reading law in favor of Smotrich and Deri, who is accused of corruption.
They also highlighted developments in the war in Ukraine.
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