RAMALLAH, July 9, 2015 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on Thursday recommendations of senior Israeli military officers to ease the Israeli restrictions on the blockaded Gaza Strip.

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, unnamed senior Israeli military officers recommended that the opening of Gaza border crossings be expanded, reported the three dailies. 

The recommendations involve allowing “thousands of Palestinians to travel abroad by entering Israel via the Erez crossing and leaving the country to Jordan via the Allenby Bridge,” as well as permitting “merchandise into Gaza through the Karni crossing and expanding the use of the Kerem Shalom crossing.”

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem notified local residents of Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood about homes demolition orders, under the pretext of construction without a permit. Israeli rarely issues construction permits to Palestinians in Jerusalem, giving them no option but to build without permits.

They said Israeli police also ordered several Palestinians in Abu Nawar, a Bedouin village near Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, to halt the construction of their homes, and asked them to refer to the so-called Israeli Civil Administration office to discuss their resettlement to another area in the West Bank.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said a number of Israeli Jewish and Arab women declared a 50-day fasting on the occasion of the Israeli aggression on Gaza last year, which lasted for 50 days.

Al-Quds reported on extremist Jewish organizations which called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ban Muslim access to al-Aqsa Mosque on the occasion of the destruction of the alleged Jewish Temple for one week starting from July 27.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Amnesty International prepared an interactive map demonstrating details of Israeli assaults on multiple areas in Gaza Strip during last year’s offensive on the coastal enclave.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that a year after Israeli aggression on Gaza, reconstruction efforts remain obstructed and a bitter future for Gazans is seemingly looming on the horizon.

Al-Ayyam quoted unnamed Israeli military sources saying Gaza’s Islamic Hamas Movement continues to arm itself and acts to transfer the center of the conflict to within Israel. 

Al-Hayat al-Jadida published that Doctors Without Borders organization denounced Israel's targeting of Palestinian children during the offensive on Gaza last year.

Al-Quds said Israeli police arrested a group of Jewish fanatics who attempted to assault Christian clerks in Jerusalem last night. 

Al-Ayyam and al-Quds quoted Hamas Chairman Khaled Meshal saying that Israel, through European mediation, asked Hamas to release two Israeli soldiers and the bodies of two others detained by Hamas since last year’s war.

Al-Quds said the United Nations considered the situation in Gaza as a “time bomb” in the region, adding that 100 thousand Palestinians are still displaced in Gaza.

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