RAMALLAH, December 7, 2015 (WAFA) – The killing of a 21-year-old Palestinian by Israeli police purportedly after he ran over an Israeli and stabbed another in Jerusalem hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

The three dailies reported in their main front page news item that a Palestinian youth from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina was shot dead by Israeli police in Jerusalem.

Al-Ayyam added that the young man was shot dead after he allegedly stabbed a number of Israelis.

Furthermore, the three newspapers reported that settlers forced their way into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Al-Quds reported that a Palestinian teenager from the Jerusalem refugee camp of Shu‘fat had his eye removed after he was shot by Israeli police.

The three dailies highlighted US Secretary of State John Kerry’s statements, during which he warned Israel about the dangers of the possible collapse of the Palestinian Authority. He reportedly said that, “The status quo is simply not sustainable and the fact of the matter is that current trends, including violence, settlement activity, demolitions, are imperiling the viability of a two-state solution.”

Al-Quds reported in this regard that Kerry criticized both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

It also reported him as warning about the PA’s dissolution and that the current trend in Israel is leading toward the racist one-state solution.

The three dailies further highlighted Netanyahu’s response to Kerry’s warnings.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Netanyahu responded ‘angrily’ to Kerry’s statements.

Netanyahu was reported in al-Ayyam as rejecting Kerry’s warning about the one-state solution and holding Palestinians responsible for the ongoing conflict.

He was also reported in the three dailies as assailing Secretary-General of PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat for paying his condolences for the family of a Palestinian intelligence officer  who was shot dead by Israeli police at Hizma checkpoint.

Fatah Central Committee was reported in al-Ayyam as supporting the submission of draft resolutions to the UN Security Council regarding basis for the resolution of the conflict, Jerusalem and settlements.

The committee was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida as examining mechanisms to implement the resolutions taken by the Palestinian Central Council with regards to redefining relations with Israel, the occupying power.

Highlighting a public opinion poll conducted by the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings about American attitudes about the Middle East and Israel, al-Quds reported that 49% of people among the Democrats recommend that the US Administration impose sanctions on Israel as a result of settlement construction.

It also said that 45% of Americans support the US abstention from voting in the case of a UN Security Council resolution endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Furthermore, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was reported in al-Quds as linking international terrorism with the lack of a solution for the ‘Question of Palestine’.

Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was reported in al-Ayyam as pledging to take the US relationship with Israel to the “next level”.

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