RAMALLAH, March 5, 2016 (WAFA) – The funeral of a Palestinian mother of four who was shot dead on Friday by Israeli armed soldiers, following an alleged car ramming attack against an Israeli soldier near Bethlehem, hit the front page headlines in the three Arabic Palestinian dailies.

Mother of four, Amani Sbateen, was fatally shot by Israeli armed forces on Friday, after she allegedly ran over an Israeli soldier near Etzion junction to the south of Bethlehem. The soldier was reportedly slightly injured.

Al-Ayyam daily described Sbateen’s killing as an ‘assassination’. Al-Hayyat al-Jadida reported in this regard that forces blocked all entrances leading to Bethlehem‘s village of Husan, the hometown of Sbateen, in the aftermath of the incident.

Al-Ayyam said dozens Palestinians who took part in the weekly peaceful Friday rallies organized across the West Bank districts, were injured as forces violently suppressed the rallies.

It said forces detained a Palestinian after Israeli settlers attacked him in the Jerusalem area.

According to a United Nations’ OCHA report, “Since the beginning of 2016, the Israeli forces have destroyed or dismantled 323 homes and other structures across the West Bank, the vast majority in Area C,” reported al-Ayyam.

Al-Hayyat al-Jadida added in this regard that the Israeli 2016 demolitions have displaced over ‘480’ Palestinians.

Chairman of the Israeli Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Tzachi Hanegbi, was reported in both al-Ayyam and al-Hayyat al-Jadida as saying that Israeli soldiers’ inability  to control the current ‘ uprising’ is not a surprise.

The Palestinian Fatah Revolutionary Council was quoted in the three dailies as urging for the prompt implementation of  the Palestinian Central Council (PCC)’s resolutions relevant to defining relations with Israel.

He was quoted in al-Ayyam as affirming that, ‘we’ we will not allow the dissolution or collapse of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

T.R.