RAMALLAH, Tuesday, May 9, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli army arrest of Palestinians, settlers storming cities and attacking farmers, and preparations to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian Nabka (catastrophe) were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
“The occupation forces detain 20 people in the West Bank and level a nursery in Hizma,” was the headline of the main front-page story in al-Hayat al-Jadida daily.
It also said in another main front-page story headline that President Mahmoud Abbas, in a meeting with the two freed former prisoners, Karim and Maher Younis, and the family of the prisoner Marwan Barghouti, said that “we will not rest until we clear the (Israeli) prisons,” and reported as well on the event held in Ramallah on the 21st anniversary for the arrest of Barghouti.
“Settlers storm, once again, Joseph’s tomb and attack farmers in Qaryout and Jaloud,” said the headline in al-Ayyam daily.
It also said in another story that Muslim religious official, Ikrima Sabri, 86, underwent interrogation at an Israeli police station in West Jerusalem for five hours and was released on condition of not talking to three TV stations.
The third daily, al-Quds, headlined: “The government adopts a plan to commemorate the Nakba and forms a social dialogue committee.”
It quoted in another story the US special representative to Palestinian affairs, Hady Amr, telling the newspaper in an interview that he is in contact with the Palestinians and the US is committed to reopening the consulate in Jerusalem.
It also quoted a United Nations report saying that Israel killed 94 Palestinians and detained dozens of others since the beginning of this year and that settlers uprooted more than 440 olive trees within two weeks.
The paper said Palestinians, in a report by the Chinese news agency, have warned of the dangers of the Israeli flags march going through Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem.
It also said the European Union has canceled a reception planned today on Europe Day in Tel Aviv because the fascist Israeli cabinet minister Itamar Ben Gvir insisted on attending it as government representative and to speak during the occasion.
Al-Ayyam said an agreement is likely within the next months over the Palestinian gas field across the Gaza coast.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the head of FIFA is expected to visit Palestine on Sunday.
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