RAMALLAH, December 9, 2015 (WAFA) – The fatal shooting of a Palestinian young man during  a predawn detention raid into Duheisha Refugee Camp, south of Bethlehem, hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

It is worth noting that the man identified as Malek Shahin, 20, received a fatal gunshot to the head during a predawn detention raid into the abovementioned camp.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported in this regard that several Palestinians were shot and injured during clashes that erupted following the funeral procession of Shahin.

Furthermore, al-Ayyam reported that Israeli forces detained a Palestinian young man from inside a Ramallah hotel purportedly for taking part in a stabbing attack against Israeli forces in Nablus.

It also reported that Israeli occupation authorities delivered an order to a Palestinian man banning him from entering the Old City of Jerusalem for six months.

Al-Quds reported that Israeli Deputy ‘Defense’ Minister Eli Ben-Dahan lighted the Hanukkah candle in al-Kurd complex, adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Furthermore, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israeli customs has seized a shipment of 4,000 stone-wielding Keffiyeh-wearing Palestinian dolls.

Israeli forces were reported in al-Quds as having seized 26 dunums of land in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem for the  benefit of settlement expansion.

The US Department of State was reported in al-Quds as backtracking on remarks accusing the Palestinian Authority (PA) of corruption and incitement and as condemning Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.

US State Department Spokesperson John Kirby was quoted in al-Ayyam as stating that the ]Secretary of State John[ Kerry has not implied that President Mahmoud Abbas and the PA are accused of corruption.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that the Arab Bank won a US appeal to block thousands of terror-finance claims.

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