RAMALLAH, December 20, 2015 (WAFA) – the three Palestinian Arabic dailies focused on Sunday on the armed clashes that broke out between Israeli occupation forces and Palestinians near Qalandia checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, on Saturday.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said a young girl and a teenager were injured by Israeli live fire during the clashes, where Israeli soldiers used live ammunition against nearby vulnerable homes and commercial shops.

The dailies reported that Israel is planning to hand over the bodies of Palestinians who were killed by Israeli fire during the ongoing unrest that began in early October, 2015.

The three dailies, including al-Quds, said three Israelis were stabbed and injured by a Palestinian assailant, identified as 20-year-old Mohammad Bsharat from the northern West Bank district of Tubas, in the city of Ra’anana in central Israel. Bsharat was later detained by Israeli police.

Al-Ayyam said Israeli police detained two Palestinian children in Shuafat neighborhood in East Jerusalem, under the pretext of pelting stones towards an Israeli light rail in the city of Jerusalem.

It said an Israeli court sentenced five Palestinian youths from the West Bank district of Salfit, to 15 years in jail and to pay a fine of 30,000 shekels (about $7,700) for pelting stones towards Israeli targets.

Al-Quds reported on Deputy Hamas Chief Ismail Haniya, as saying that Israeli violence has helped fuel the current unrest in the West Bank.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said Hamas Chief Khaled Meshal met with Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan in Istanbul.

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