RAMALLAH, June 13, 2015 (WAFA) – The Israeli forces' violent suppression of Friday weekly marches, protesting the construction of Israeli settlements and the separation wall, held across the West Bank hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

The three dailies reported that Israeli forces opened live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets on peaceful protesters, injuring dozens.

Al-Quds added that Israeli forces hampered the work of journalists. Al-Hayat al-Jadida noted that injuries included two Palestinian young men who were critically injured as Israeli forces opened live fire on the Friday weekly march in the Qalqiliya village of Kafr Qaddum.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Israeli forces ‘tortured’ three Palestinian children before releasing them in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan and that Israeli navy opened gunfire on Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza.

While the suppression of Friday marches featured as a common news article in the three Palestinian daily newspapers, al-Quds opted to highlight Israeli settlement construction plans.

It reported that Israel is preparing to construct a new settlement in the East Jerusalem village of Kafr ‘Aqab. In order to connect the new settlement with Jerusalem, Israel plans to open an access point in the section of the segregation wall surrounding the village.

It added that Israel also intends to construct 90 new settler units in the central West Bank settlements of ‘Kochav Yaakov’ and ‘Beit Horon’.

Al-Quds further reported that the new settler ‘tourist’ center, known as Kedem Compound,  to be built by the Elad settler organization in Silwan opposite to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound was approved by the Israeli Higher Planning Council.

It is worth noting in this respect that ‘Elad’ organization plans to build the new center on top of an archaeological excavation site. The organization itself, Elad, the Hebrew acronym for the so-called ‘To the City of David’, is a private settler organization that was founded in 1986 with the explicit goal of displacing Palestinians from East Jerusalem and settling Jews in their place. It achieves this by providing assistance in the ‘purchase’ or seizure of Palestinian properties.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported Hamas senior official Khalil al-Haya as unveiling that international efforts are being exerted to prevent any Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip.

Al-Quds reported that Palestinian prisoners institutions made an urgent appeal, calling for the release of Palestinian hunger-striking detainee Khader ‘Adnan.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported FIFA as announcing that Tokyo Sexwale, a South African, was appointed by the FIFA to lead the committee to investigate issues affecting Palestinian footballers under Israeli occupation.

Both newspapers reported head of the French telecoms giant Orange Stephane Richard as saying to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the company has never supported and will never support any kind of boycott against Israel.

Al-Quds reported that as a result of Israeli pressures, an exhibition for ‘Breaking the Silence’ organization was called off in the Cologne, Germany.

The exhibition was supposed to highlight human rights abuses by Israeli soldiers against Palestinians and feature testimonies from former Israeli soldiers who said there was a policy of 'unnecessary killings of Palestinians'.

 Al-Ayyam  and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that hundreds of Bosnian soccer fans protested against a match between the Israeli and Bosnian soccer teams, demanding the Israeli team to leave.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israeli army dropped proceedings over a July 16 bombing of a Gaza beach where four Palestinian children were killed during the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza.

PLO Executive Committee member Saeb Erekat was quoted in al-Hayat al-Jadida as stating: “The Israeli conditions for resuming talks are detrimental to the two-state solution.”

Regionally, al-Ayyam reported that Syrian Druze commended the efforts exerted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to heal the rift and reach a political solution for the Syrian crisis.

Al-Quds reported that Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck part of the Old City of Sanaa in Yemen, destroying three ancient homes and killing six people. UNESCO has expressed its outrage and condemnation, while Saudi Arabia denied responsibility for the destruction.

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