RAMALLAH, June 24, 2015 (WAFA) – Palestinian official remarks that the current government has not resigned yet, but would continue to assume its responsibilities hit the front page headlines in the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Highlighting Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s remarks during the weekly cabinet session, the three dailies reported him as affirming that the current national consensus government would continue to assume it tasks until the new government is formed.

They also reported that a general budget for the year 2015, worth of $5.018 billion, was approved by the cabinet.

The three dailies reported that the PLO Executive Committee has formed a liaison committee to be in charge of undertaking consultations with all Palestinian factions concerning the formation of a new national consensus government.

Covering Israeli forces and settlers’ practices throughout the occupied Palestinian Territory, al-Quds reported that Israeli forces handed a stop-construction notice of a water cistern, located to the east of Yatta, while Israeli naval boats opened gunfire on Palestinian farmers to the east of Khan Younes in the southern Gaza Strip.

It added that Israeli police ambushed and detained seven Palestinian minors in the East Jerusalem town of Beit Hanina.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported in this regard that Israeli occupation authorities continue to carry out excavations in the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem.

Highlighting the growing international boycott of Israeli settlements’ products, al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that a number of Belgian political parties have recommended a resolution to isolate and boycott companies that support Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT).

They also reported that three Slovenian parliamentary caucuses have submitted a motion urging the recognition of an independent Palestinian state.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that the Egyptian authorities have opened the Rafah crossing with Gaza on Tuesday for three days.

Al-Quds quoted the Israeli Peace Now movement as announcing that Israel seeks to seize ‘private Palestinian lands’ for the construction of a settlement outpost.

It further reported that the Israeli Knesset, intends to continue to exempt Israeli intelligence from documenting video and audio recordings of interrogations of Palestinians.

Al-Ayyam said that hunger striking detainee Khader Adnan has been off food and living only on water for 50 consecutive days, a move taken on his part to protest his detention without charge or trial, known as administrative detention.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israel has launched a diplomatic campaign against the report of the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the latest Gaza conflict.

It said that Freedom Flotilla III is prepared to sail to Gaza, while al-Ayyam quoted the activists as saying they are determined to keep international pressure in order to break the illegal Israeli blockade.

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