RAMALLAH, May 2, 2015 (WAFA) – Israeli army quelling of Friday peaceful
weekly marches protesting Israeli segregation wall and settlement expansion
across the West Bank coupled with International Criminal Court chief
prosecutor’s remarks assuring the maintenance of complete neutrality in the
inquiry to be initiated into possible war crimes committed during the latest Israeli
onslaught on Gaza, featured the common front page news items in Palestinian
dailies.
Covering the Israeli forces’ quelling of Friday marches, the three
dailies reported that dozens of Palestinians were injured and suffered
excessive tear gas inhalation.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida added in this regard that Israeli forces
assaulted the volunteers who participated in an anti-settlement activity in
Hebron.
The three dailies printed two different photos for an injured
Palestinian protestor being evacuated from the scene in front of the Israeli
detention center of Ofer near the Ramallah town of Beitunia.
Covering the ICC’s remarks over the independence and impartial
inquiry, al-Quds reported that the initial inquiry would look into the actions
of both sides, Israel and Hamas, during the latest war on Gaza.
The three dailies reported the ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
as affirming that as a result of recognizing Palestine as an observer state at
the UN General Assembly, the ICC has jurisdiction over Palestine.
Both al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Bensouda as
announcing that the ICC would “impartially” conduct an inquiry into possible
war crimes committed by both sides.
A number of other significant issues hit the front page headlines
in the dailies; on one hand, al-Quds reported that tens of thousands of
Palestinian workers are subjected to daily humiliation [by Israeli soldiers],
while attempting to cross Israeli checkpoints to reach their workplaces inside
Israel.
It added that they are deprived from their rights, they receive low
wages and that they are subject to racist attacks.
On the other hand, al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that a delegation of
South African Jews extended their apologies for any support offered by South
African Jews to Israeli settlement projects in Palestine and that they offered
their apologies to displaced Palestinian residents’ of the depopulated village
of Lubya.
Located a few kilometers west of Tiberias in the Galilee, Lubya was
a Palestinian village destroyed and depopulated in 1948 and today is the site
of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) South Africa Park.
Al-Quds quoted Hamas senior official Isma‘il Haniyeh as saying: “We
are looking forward to Saudi Arabia playing a role in achieving the Palestinian
reconciliation.”
Haniyeh was reported in the al-Ayyam newspaper as saying that Hamas
has stepped down in Gaza in order to form the national consensus government,
which has done nothing in order to carry out its designated three tasks.
Quoting the Israeli daily of Haaretz, al-Hayat al-Jadida reported
that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that any ceasefire deal
with Hamas would serve his policy.
Al-Quds further reported
that the US Senate has passed a bill intended to protect Israeli settlements
across the West Bank.
It further reported that a Spanish municipality has recommended the
Spanish government to impose sanctions on Israel.
Covering the situation in the Palestinian refugee camp of
al-Yarmouk in Syria, al-Ayyam reported that a Palestinian succumbed to his
wounds in the camp that is still being blockaded and bombarded.
K. F./T.R.
