RAMALLAH, March 12, 2016 (WAFA) – The Israeli Shooting and injuring of Palestinians in weekly Friday clashes across the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Israeli raid into a Ramallah Palestinian TV station hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.
Highlighting weekly Friday clashes, the three dailies reported that Israeli forces shot and injured scores of Palestinians.
Highlighting the raid into a Ramallah-based Palestinian media outlet, the three dailies reported that Israeli forces shut down the headquarters of Falastin al-Yawm (Palestine Today) and stormed TransMedia Production Company.
Al-Ayyam added in this regard that forces detained two journalists during the raid.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a shooting at an Israeli military checkpoint near Ramallah. The three dailies also reported that an Israeli settler was stabbed and injured in Jerusalem.
The dailies also reported that rockets launched from the Gaza Strip fell near the southern Israeli city of Sderot.
Highlighting the Palestinian government’s bid to construct the first-of-its-kind Khalid al-Hasan Cancer Treatment Center, the dailies reported that President Mahmoud Abbas and the government donated $1 million and $4 million, respectively, for the project.
Highlighting the ongoing Palestinian public teachers strike that entered its fourth week, al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported on Premier Rami Hamdallah as announcing that the government mulls making a new initiative in consultation with Abbas to help end the strike.
Regarding the Arab League foreign ministers’ meeting in Cairo, al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported on Arab foreign ministers as welcoming the French bid to resume moribund Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.
They were also reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida as pledging to continue efforts to submit a draft resolution on Israeli settlement construction to the United Nations Security Council.
The dailies also highlighted their decision to declare Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement a “terrorist” group.
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