RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (WAFA)- The three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today highlighted the Israeli repressive measures against the Palestinian freedom fighters incarcerated in Israel and those released from prison, as well as Israeli demolition orders against Palestinian homes and other measures.
Al-Quds said that as Palestinian freedom fighters have entered their eighth day of mutiny against repressive measures imposed by the Israel Prison Services (IPS) against them at orders from the fascist cabinet minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the IPS repressive forces continued to raid cells and impose even more inhumane measures against the prisoners.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida daily said the Israeli occupation forces raided homes of former Palestinian prisoners in occupied East Jerusalem and seized jewelry and a car, along with money in reprisal for receiving social welfare from the Palestinian Authority.
It said the Fatah Central Committee held a meeting last night chaired by President Mahmoud Abbas and discusses local issues.
Al-Quds said the committee called for ending the settlements, demolitions, and displacement and to preserve the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
The third daily, al-Ayyam, said Palestinians confronted raiding Israeli soldiers in Jenin.
It also said Ben Gvir told the police to act toward Palestinian fireworks as if they were explosives.
Al-Quds said Israel issued demolition orders against five homes in the village of al-Aqaba, east of the Jordan Valley city of Tubas, seized two vehicles and a stone cutting saw in Jenin and Urif village, as settlers chopped 65 trees in al-Lubban al-Sharqiya near Ramallah and attacked shepherds near Jericho.
It said Israel deported a member of the European Parliament and refused her entry as part of an EP delegation.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, met in Ramallah with a delegation from the pro-Israel lobby group in Washington, AIPAC.
It also said 20 Israeli organizations said the struggle for democracy should also include the struggle against the occupation.
It said the Belgium-Palestine Friendship Association called for banning Israeli settlement products in the European Union markets.
Al-Ayyam said three people were killed in a family feud in the town of Jayyous in the north of the West Bank.
It said two Palestinian police officers were injured in a shooting attack at a police station in Yamoun, also in the north of the West Bank.
It said the Israeli army admitted that its forces killed 11-year-old Mohammad Allami by mistake after opening fire at his family car in Hebron at the end of July 2021 at a time the family did not pose a threat to the soldiers.
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