RAMALLAH, June 30, 2015 (WAFA) – The three
Palestinian Arabic dailies focused in their Tuesday issue on the Israeli navy’s
interception and seizure of Freedom Flotilla III, bound for Gaza to break the Israeli siege, on Monday.
They said the Israeli Navy boarded and seized a
boat leading a four-vessel flotilla of international pro-Palestinian activists,
including former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki, and prevented them from
reaching the blockaded coastal enclave.
Al-Quds quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and ‘Defense’ Minister Moshe Ya’alon, as justifying the interception
of the flotilla by denying the existence of Israel’s blockade of Gaza for
almost nine years now, while claiming that Palestinians are trying to
delegitimize Israel.
In a different subject, the dailies highlighted
Monday’s car bomb attack which took place
in Cairo and killed Egypt’s public prosecutor Hisham Barakat.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said President Mahmoud Abbas
sent a letter of condolences to his Egyptian counterpart Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi
and condemned all acts of terrorism.
The dailies said four Israeli settlers were
injured by live bullets when an assailant, who remained anonymous,
opened fire at them from a speeding car to the south of Nablus on Monday
evening.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said hunger striking
Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails Khader Adnan ended his hunger strike in
return for a termination of his administrative detention, without charge or
trial.
Al-Ayyam reported on the Israeli army radio as
quoting high Israeli officials as saying that Adnan’s release was to prevent an
inevitable escalation of violence in the West Bank.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted Azzam al-Ahmad, a
senior official of Fatah faction, as saying that talks with Hamas on a national
unity government arrived at an impasse.
Al-Ayyam said Hamas senior official Khalil
Hayyeh pledged that Hamas will not be part of a forthcoming unity government,
in place of the current national consensus government.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam said the
Israeli government decided to build a 30 kilometer-long security fence on
Israel-Jordan borderline.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who said he was reconsidering Israel’s membership
at the UN Human Rights Council, following the latter’s recent report on last
summer’s aggression on Gaza.
Al-Ayyam said Israeli army arrested a
Palestinian woman near Bethlehem for allegedly stabbing a female Israeli
soldier.
It said Israel decided to boycott the UN Human
Rights Council meeting in Geneva to discuss its recent report on Israel’s last
summer’s war on Gaza.
It quoted French Foreign Minister Laurent
Fabius, who said that France is tending towards establishing a new Middle East
Quartet which includes Arab member countries.
M.N./T.R.
