RAMALLAH, May 27, 2015 (WAFA) – Senior Palestinian officials’ rebuffing a proposal made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume peace talks that would allow delineation and annexation of settlements hit the front page headlines of Palestinian dailies.

The three dailies reported that Palestinian leadership rebuffed the proposal submitted by Netanyahu to the EU to resume negotiations that would allow the delineation of settlement blocs.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida slammed Netanyahu’s proposal as a new ‘ploy’.

Palestinian presidency sources, namely Presidential Spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh, was reported in the dailies as stating that presidency would uphold its request that talks about the final-status issues should not be postponed.

He was also reported as stating that peace negotiations or talks should be based on establishing a Palestinian state along 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Covering Israeli forces practices across the West Bank and Gaza, al-Quds reported that 15 Palestinians suffocated as Israeli forces stormed the Jenin town of Jaba‘.

It also reported that four other workers were shot and injured as forces chased and targeted them near the Qalqilya village of ‘Azzun.

They reported that a rocket fired from Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel. Al-Ayyam added in this regard that Hamas has evacuated all of its security posts in the aftermath.

Al-Quds quoted senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouq as saying: “The Israeli occupation is the only winner from internal Arab differences.”

Netanyahu was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida as instructing the sum of $100 million to be transferred for settlement construction in al-Buraq Wall, the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.

Al-Ayyam further reported that residents of the Hebron locality of Susiya are concerned about being forcefully displaced by Israeli forces.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted that dozens of protestors demonstrated outside the branches of the Bank of Palestine across Gaza against a decision by the bank to refuse money transfer from abroad to charitable organizations.

Al-Ayyam reported in this regard that the rest of Palestinian banks operating in the Gaza Strip suspended their work in solidarity with Bank of Palestine.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Palestine Monetary Authority as condemning the demonstration as an ‘irresponsible conduct’ and ‘an act of aggression’ that is threatening the local banking system.

Highlighting Palestinian Premier Rami Hamdallah’s visit to Brussels to attend a donors’ conference, al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that the conference is dedicated to discussing the dilemmas facing the Palestinian economy.

Interviewing Fatah Central Committee Member ‘Azzam al-Ahmad, al-Hayat al-Jadida reported him as revealing that as soon as the first step was taken toward bringing about intra-Palestinian reconciliation, US official George Mitchell threatened that US funds to the PA would be halted.

He was further reported as saying that in response to Mitchell’s threat, President Mahmoud Abbas affirmed that the unity of the Palestinian people is more important than both winning the US Congress’ satisfaction and all of the world’s wealth.

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