RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 27, 2023 (WAFA) – Rampage and pogroms by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
“Settlers go a wide scale pogrom setting fire to a house, attacking vehicles, and destroying crops,” was the main front-page story headline in al-Ayyam daily.
Al-Quds daily's main front-page story headline said: “Setting a house on fire, uprooting trees, stealing land and streams: Settlers go on a rampage while the army issues demolition orders against homes and facilities.”
The third daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida, talked about the same thing in its main front-page story headline and added: “The occupation authorities escalate against sanctities and warning of turning Bab al-Rahma prayer area (in Al-Aqsa Mosque) into a synagogue;” “the extremist Ben Gvir breaks into the Ibrahimi Mosque (in Hebron);” and “the extremist Smotrich and other Knesset members take part in storming the evacuated Homesh settlement (near Jenin).”
Al-Quds said the settlers have desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque by raising the Israeli flag in its courtyards, while the police, for the fourth day, raided Bab al-Rahma prayer area.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the Palestinian presidency has warned that the Israeli measures at Al-Aqsa Mosque and the siege on the cities will lead to an explosion on the ground.
It also quoted Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh saying Bab Al-Rahma prayer area is part and parcel of Al-Aqsa Mosque and only Muslims have a right to it.
It also said that thousands took part in the 26th march of return in the cleansed Lajoun village in the north of Palestine.
Al-Quds said the participants in the march commemorating the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian villages when Israel was created in Palestine in 1948 hoisted the Palestinian flags and carried signs of the names of the hundreds of cleansed villages.
Al-Ayyam said a large number of people took part in the march in Lajoun stressing “the right of return has no statute of limitations.”
It said Israel allocated millions of shekels to open a ring road around East Jerusalem.
It quoted Peace Now movement saying that the so-called custodian of absentee property turned over half a million dunums of Palestinian land to the settlements councils.
Al-Quds said a report by B’Tselem rights group said Israel demolished 5338 Palestinian-owned buildings in the West Bank and 1925 in occupied East Jerusalem since 2006.
It said the anti-Zionist ultra-orthodox Jewish group, Neturi Karta, demonstrated in Jerusalem against the Israeli occupation.
It also said Saudi Arabia has released from prison the son of Hamas's former representative in the kingdom, months after the release of his father and both were deported to Jordan.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said 44 percent of the members of the Democratic Party in the United States consider Israel an apartheid state, which al-Ayyam said, according to the poll conducted by the University of Maryland, shows a continuation in the decline in support by Democrats of Israel.
The developments in the conflict in Sudan were also highlighted on the front page of the dailies.
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