RAMALLAH, October 28, 2014 (WAFA) – Israel’s
recent plans to build around 1,000 settlement units in East Jerusalem made
headlines of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies in their Tuesday issue.
Al-Quds said the Israeli government has
approved the construction of 1,000 new settlement units in East Jerusalem, a
blatant defiance of the international law in order “to settle extremist
settlers.”
Al-Ayyam said in its main news story that
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered to accelerate the
construction of 1,060 settlement units in the Occupied East Jerusalem. It said that
the US Department of State considered the new settlement plans to be contradictory
with the peace process.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Quds said President
Mahmoud Abbas called on the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent
session to examine the recent escalations in Jerusalem, including provocative
settles’ visits to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
It said Israel is launching a ‘reprisal
campaign in Jerusalem’ against stone throwers, in reference to a recent surge
of clashes between Israeli police and enraged Palestinian activists over the
killings of teens and arrests of many others.
The dailies said the new settlement plans
were faced by wide international and Arab condemnation, including from Jordan,
Egypt, and the European Union.
Al-Quds said the government of Saudi Arabia
warned against the grave consequences of a potential Israeli spatial and
temporal division of Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews.
They quoted Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah
saying that East Jerusalem shall be part of a future independent Palestinian
state. He added that the city’s Islamic and Christian holy sites are a “red
line”.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said the Israeli
authorities demolished a number of residential structures owned by Palestinian
Bedouins in the village of Umm al-Khair, south of Hebron.
It quoted Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad
saying the Palestinian side has not been informed by Egypt regarding any
Palestinian complicity in the Sinai attack last Friday, in which 30 Egyptian
troops were killed.
Al-Ahmad said that Egypt has the right to
establish a buffer zone along the border with Gaza, Al-Quds reported.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Speaker of the
Jordanian House of Representatives, Atef Tarawneh, considered the Israeli
practices equal the terrorism of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Al-Quds said hunger striking prisoner Raed
Mousa, held in Israeli jails, was transferred to hospital for medical treatment
after his health deteriorated significantly.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam said the Call
of Tunisia won the Tunisian legislative elections against its biggest rival the
Islamic Ennahda Movement.
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