RAMALLAH, Saturday, June 17, 2023 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today highlighted the weekly Palestinian anti-settlements, anti-occupation protests in the West Bank and the large number of injuries caused by the Israeli army crackdown on these protests.

Al-Ayyam and al-Quds dailies said dozens of injuries in the Friday protests as the Israeli army tightens the blockade on the town of Yabad in the north of the West Bank.

The third daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida, also talked about dozens of injuries in the headline on this topic and said the Israeli occupation is threatening to wage a large-scale military assault on the north of the West Bank.

It said in another top front-page headline that President Mahmoud Abbas met with the president of the Kyrgyz Republic on his way back home after a three-day official visit to China.

In other top front-page headlines, al-Ayyam said a new settlement is going to be built on 79 dunums of land in Jabal al-Mukabber neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem consisting of 384 housing units.

It also quoted the Israeli Ir Amim organization saying that settlement expansion is on the rise in occupied East Jerusalem as 22 plans have been advanced for the construction of more than 16000 housing units as plans are underway to build 7000 units next month.

Al-Quds said dozens of people participated in a protest outside the Sub Laban home in Jerusalem’s Old City against Israeli plans to evict the elderly couple from their home in order to turn it over to Jewish settlers.

It also said that in light of the rise in Israeli settlements and aggression in the occupied territories, the US Secretary of Defense warns of a deterioration in the security situation in the West Bank.

It quoted CNN saying that the Israeli army did not stop the settlers’ attacks against Palestinian civilians in Huwara town in the north of the West Bank.

Al-Ayyam said settlers set fire to Palestinian agricultural land in the southern West Bank village of Husan.

It said Palestinians in the Arab town of Abu Ghosh in Israel fear the consequences of allocating new housing units in their town to settlers while the town faces a steep housing shortage for its residents.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Palestine TV won the first and second prizes in an event for Arab TV and radio stations held in Tunis.

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