RAMALLAH, October 23, 2014 (WAFA) – A fatal car crash which took place on Wednesday in Jerusalem, where a Palestinian’s car rammed into Israeli commuters, killing one of them and injuring eight others, topped the front pages of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies in Thursday’s issue.

Al-Quds said in its main news story that a Palestinian youngster, identified as 20-year-old Abdul-Rahman Shloudi, from the Jerusalem suburb of Silwan was killed, whereas an Israeli infant was killed and eight others injured when Shloudi’s car drifted leftward into pedestrians at a railway stop.

Al-Ayyam said a youngster was killed by Israeli Police live fire after his car crashed into Israeli pedestrians waiting at a railway stop in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring eight others.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida focused more on a recent “red lines” paper submitted by the European Union to Israel, warning the latter not to carry on settlement construction and expansion or change the status quo in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

It also commented on Jerusalem’s car crash, saying Israel tries to exploit the accident to step up its crackdown on Palestinian youth activists in the Old City, as well as to incite against the Palestinian Authority.

Al-Quds said the EU is seeking to negotiate with Israel over “red lines” on Israel’s ongoing settlement activities.

It said Israeli settlers on Wednesday set 200 Palestinian-owned olive trees on fire in the village of Huwwara, south of Nablus.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted US Secretary of State John Kerry as saying the status quo in Israel and the Palestinian Territory is ‘unsustainable.’

The three dailies quoted an Israel official, speaking on condition of anonymity, as saying that Israel is not planning to change the de facto status in al-Aqsa Mosque, under Jordanian civil administration and Israel military control.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said the Irish Upper House of Parliament, Seanad, unanimously passed a motion calling on the government to recognize the State of Palestine.

Both dailies said Spanish parties have submitted a bill to Spanish Congress of Deputies calling for the government to recognize Palestine as an official state.

They also said a 9-year-old Palestinian child died on Wednesday in an explosion caused by explosive remnants of the latest Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said two Israeli soldiers were injured by live fire during a cross border attack on Israel-Egypt borders.

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