RAMALLAH, Saturday, July 15, 2023 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today highlighted the success of the Palestinian village of Umm Safa, near Ramallah, in kicking out settles who tried to set up an outpost on their lands, and Israeli measures to annex Area C of the occupied West Bank.
While the fascist and racist Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich starts measures to take control over Area C, which makes up more than 60 percent of the area of the West Bank, as reported in the main front-page story headline in al-Quds daily, the Palestinian residents of the village of Umm Safa succeeded in preventing the Jewish settlers from setting up an illegal settlement outpost on their land and kicked them out of the area, as reported in the main front-page story in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida dailies.
The three dailies also highlighted the confrontations between Palestinians and the occupation forces in several areas of the West Band and said dozens of people were hurt in these confrontations, one of them shot by a live bullet in the village of Kobar, north of Ramallah.
Al-Ayyam said the Israeli police dispersed by force a protest in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem against the takeover of Palestinian homes for the benefit of settlers and four people were detained.
It also quoted a United Nations agency saying that the latest Israeli military assault on Jenin and its refugee camp in the north of the West Bank damaged 460 homes, 70 of which were totally destroyed.
It also quoted UN experts saying the assault on Jenin amounts to a war crime.
Sweden, said al-Ayyam, has approved burning copies of the Bible and the Torah in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm in a step similar to allowing the burning of the Quran outside a mosque in the city.
Al-Quds said Israel has condemned the approval to burn the Torah outside its Stockholm embassy.
It also said the Human Right Council approved a resolution calling for updating the database of companies working in illegal Israeli settlements.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said four US lawmakers are going to boycott the upcoming speech by the Israeli president at the Congress in protest against Israeli violations of the Palestinian people.
It also said an Irish lawmaker called on his country to recognize the state of Palestine and on the world to respond to the Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
It said Palestinians participated in a bike ride in support of Jenin and its refugee camp.
It also said Palestinians in three towns in Israel protested the rise in crime in their towns and police apathy.
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