RAMALLAH, March 26, 2016 (WAFA) – The barrage of condemnations of an Israeli soldiers’ killing of a wounded Palestinian in the Hebron neighborhood of Tal Rumeida together with Palestinian injuries during weekly Friday marches hit the front page headlines in the dailies.
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov was reported in al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida as slamming the killing as “extrajudicial execution”.
He was also reported in al-Ayyam as slamming the killing as “a gruesome, immoral and unjust act.”
It is worth mentioning in this regard that Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif and Ramzi al-Qasrawi, both 21, were shot down Thursday after they allegedly stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier in the Hebron neighborhood of Tal Rumeida.
Emad Abu Shamsiya, a Palestinian human rights worker, recorded a video footage of an Israeli soldier shooting al-Sharif in the head at point-blank range in plain view of the medical team after he had already been shot at least once and left motionless on the ground.
Israeli forces, according to the dailies, handed over the body of al-Qasrawi, while they continued to withhold the body of al-Sharif.
Israeli settlers, according to al-Quds, attacked Palestinian houses in the Hebron neighborhood of Tal Rumeida. Besides, they, according to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, called for the killing of Abu Shamsiya, who recorded the video footage.
Furthermore, the three dailies reported that scores of Palestinians were shot, injured and suffocated during weekly Friday marches. A number of Palestinians were detained during Friday confrontations.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israeli forces detained two Palestinian girls from Jerusalem and Hebron districts for allegedly attempting to stab soldiers.
They also reported that thousands of Christian Palestinians [and pilgrims[ marked Good Friday according to the Gregorian Calendar in Jerusalem.
Highlighting the latest Israeli settlement building plans, al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that Israel plans to build 900 new settler units in the East Jerusalem illegal settlement of Pisgat Zeev.
Al-Quds reported on Spokesperson of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Father Issa Musleh, as categorically denying Israeli media reports that the Patriarchate reached an agreement with the Jerusalem Municipality on the construction of an archaeological park on a plot of land near the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City.
It also reported that a Fatah delegation arrived in Doha as part of efforts to complete reconciliation agreement with Hamas.
In addition, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted UN Human Rights Council’s vote on four resolutions related to the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT).
The Palestinian cabinet reportedly welcomed the four resolutions, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the council as an “anti-Israel circus”.
President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly rejected US pressures aimed at the deletion of an item related to blacklisting companies which do business in illegal Israeli settlements.
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