May 11, 2015 (WAFA) – An Israeli court’s order to evacuate and
demolish 23 buildings in a northern Jerusalem neighborhood together with the
demolition of an century-old Islamic shrine by Israeli forces in Nablus hit the
front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.
Al-Quds reported in its main front page news item that an Israeli
court issued evacuation and demolition notices for 23 apartments in the East
Jerusalem neighborhood of Semiramis, located in the seam zone area near
Qalandiya checkpoint.
It further
reported that Israeli naval boats continued to target Palestinian fishermen off
Gaza coast and that Israeli settlers bulldozed Palestinian lands in Salfit district.
Al-Ayyam and
al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israeli occupation forces demolished Abu Kamel
Islamic shrine in the Nablus village of Beit Dagan and seized its stones.
On the other
hand, al-Ayyam reported in its main front page item that the Israeli military
court of Ofer reinstated the imprisonment sentence of five Palestinian ex-detainees who were released in
the Gilad Shalit prisoners swap in 2011.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted in its main front
page item that President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to visit Italy in mid May
in order to attend the canonization of two of Palestinian nuns to gain
sainthood; Marie Alphonsine Ghattas of Jerusalem and Mariam Bawardy of
Galilee, both of whom lived in Ottoman Palestine during the 19th century.
Al-Quds reported
that the Palestinian National Council welcomed the European Union (EU) parliamentarians’
call for the EU to suspend its partnership agreement with Israel.
Covering
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s relentless efforts to secure his
coalition, al-Quds reported that the new coalition deal between the Likud and
the Jewish Home parties will end up intensifying Israeli settlement
construction across the West Bank.
Al-Ayyam and
al-Hayat al-Jadida reported in this regard that Netanyahu has asked the Knesset to allow him to boost the
number of ministers in his new government.
Al-Quds reported that dozens of residents and
families of Palestinians who were deported from Bethlehem to Gaza in 2002 after
taking refuge in the Church of the Nativity, held a march in solidarity with
the deportees in the Manager Square.
It printed a photo featuring Palestinians raising Palestinian
flags and banners calling for the deportees’ freedom and return.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that the deportees
themselves called for ending their forced exile in Gaza and allow them to
return to their families’ houses.
Al-Ayyam also reported that Ethiopian Israelis
have threatened to return to streets ]if Israeli authorities do not meet their
demands and drop charges against protesters arrested in Tel Aviv during the
previous week[.
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