RAMALLAH, April 30, 2015 (WAFA) – Israeli police’ violent quelling of a Palestinian rally protesting the Israeli decision to shut down a local thoroughfare in the East Jerusalem village of al-Tur together with Hamas police’s quelling of a youth rally urging reconstruction and calling for an end of the intra-Palestinian division in Shuja‘iyah hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

Al-Quds reported that Israeli police quelled a Palestinian rally in al-Tur and that Israeli forces notified Palestinian residents of a Yatta locality to the south of Hebron of their intention to demolish a number of water wells.

It added that Israeli forces conducted detention raids across the West Bank and settlers assaulted Palestinian farmers to the east of Bethlehem.

While al-Quds highlighted quelling of al-Tur rally by Israeli police as its main front page news item, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted quelling of the Shuja‘iyah rally by Hamas police as their main front page news item.

Al-Ayyam reported in this regard that Hamas forcibly dispersed the youth rally, causing injuries among the participants and detaining a number of them. On the other hand, al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Hamas quelled the youth rally, firing bullets at participants and beating them using clubs, as well as detained two reporters.

With regard to the situation in Gaza, al-Quds reported that Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov arrived at Gaza and pledged to make efforts in order to ease Israeli restrictions imposed on the strip.

Al-Ayyam quoted an unnamed EU diplomat as warning that the EU would no longer be able to pay the wages of Gaza civil servants who have failed to assume their work since 2007 unless they do so.

It also reported that a delegation from the Elders headed by former US President Jimmy Carter canceled their visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled on Thursday without providing any reasons.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israel allowed the entry of 14,000 tons of construction material into Gaza.

The three dailies reported that a number of teachers, a student and a janitor developed certain symptoms after opening a suspicious parcel in the girls primary school of Siris village to the southeast of Jenin.

Covering the latest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to form a coalition government, both al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Netanyahu signed coalition deals with the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and the center-right Kulanu toward forming a new government.

Regionally, the three dailies reported Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s announcement of a government reshuffle involving appointing King Salman's nephew, Mohammed bin Nayef, as crown prince and the king's son, Mohammed bin Salman, as deputy crown prince.

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