RAMALLAH, September 27, 2014 – (WAFA) – The speech that was delivered Friday by President Mahmoud Abbas before the United Nations General Assembly Sixty-ninth session in New York hit the front page headlines of the dailies.

Here are the front page headlines of the dailies.

Al-Ayyam:

-          ­President Abbas in the UN: The hour of independence of the State of Palestine has arrived. We will not forget and we will not forgive the genocide in Gaza.

-          ]Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin[ Netanyahu slams Abbas’ speech as ‘provocative’.

-          ]Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor[ Lieberman: He ]Abbas[ is the continuation of ]late Palestinian President Yasser[ Arafat.

-          ]Presidential Spokesperson Nabil[ Abu Rudeineh: It is not in the US’ interest to veto the Palestinian bid at the UN Security Council.

-          President ]Abbas[ continues to hold meetings at New York.

-          UNRWA Commissioner-General ]Pierre Krahenbuhl[ warns against a terrible humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip.

-          UN official: It will take Gaza years to return to the situation that existed before the latest onslaught.

-          Netanyahu: We will neither recognize nor negotiate with Hamas.

-          Israeli occupation forces deprive thousands of Palestinian Moslems from performing their Friday prayer in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

-          Israeli occupation forces crush weekly rallies, dozens of injuries are reported.

Al-Hayat Al-Jadida

-          In his decisive speech before the UN, President ]Abbas[:The hour of independence of the State of Palestine has arrived.

-          President ]Abbas[: We seek a UN Security Council resolution that set a deadline to end the occupation.

-          President ]Abbas[: We will not forget and we will not forgive, and we will not allow war criminals to escape punishment.

-          President ]Abbas[: It is impossible to return to the cycle of negotiations that failed to deal with the substance of the matter and the fundamental question.

-          Israel slams Abbas’ speech as ‘political terrorism’ and ‘instigating hatred’.

-          Israeli occupation forces turn Jerusalem into a barrack, besiege the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

-          UN official: It will take Gaza years to return to the situation that existed before the latest onslaught.

-          The situation in Jerusalem could explode as a result of the Israeli occupation’s practices.

Al-Quds

-          ­President Abbas in the UN: The hour of independence of the State of Palestine has arrived.

-          Abu Rudeineh: The UN Security Council is required to pass a resolution setting a deadline to end the occupation.

-          Israel slams Abbas’ speech as ‘inciting’, ‘a speech that doesn’t encourage peace’.

-          The Israeli ‘security’ practices in Jerusalem have deprived thousands of Palestinian Moslems from performing the Fajr and Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

-          Clashes erupt in the anti-annexation-and-apartheid-wall weekly rallies ]between Israeli forces and Palestinians[ across the West Bank.

-          Israeli settlers scuffle with police in Silwan while performing religious rituals.

-          Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades announce forming a ‘people’s army’ that would support them in any next war with Israel.

-          UNRWA Commissioner-General ]Pierre Krahenbuhl[ warns against a looming disaster in the Gaza Strip.

-          Russell Tribunal on Palestine finds Israel guilty of committing war crimes.

-          ]Israeli ‘Defense’ Minister Moshe[ Yaalon: Lebanon second war has convinced the enemies that the ‘spider-web theory’ that was developed by Arafat and adopted by ]Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan[ Nasrallah is correct.

-          The results of a recent opinion poll indicate that 61% of Israeli Jews don’t trust the current Israeli leadership, 72% oppose holding talks with Hamas.

K.F. /T.R.