RAMALLAH, April 23, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli forces’ suppressing of weekly Friday rallies and the remarks made by President Mahmoud Abbas as he signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in the UN headquarters in New York hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

Highlighting Friday rallies in their main front page news items, al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that scores of Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition and suffocated as Israeli forces quelled the rallies.

Moreover, Abbas’ remarks during the global climate change convention ceremony in New York hit the front page headlines in the dailies.

The three dailies reported that Abbas signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on behalf of the State of Palestine.

Abbas was quoted in al-Quds as stating: “We are proceeding with state-building on democratic bases and our people won’t accept ongoing Israeli occupation.”

He was quoted in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida as stressing that the Palestinian people won’t accept that the status quo continue.

He was also quoted in al-Hayat al-Jadida as stating: “Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine and Israeli settlements are destroying nature in Palestine.”

The three dailies highlighted tensions over Jewish settlers’ intrusions into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the occasion of the Jewish holiday of Passover.

Al-Quds reported that Israeli police banned 27 Palestinian worshippers from the mosque compound and placed another under temporary administrative detention.

All-Ayyam reported that Israel has deployed 3,500 ‘security officers’ in Jerusalem, a measure which resulted, according to al-Hayat al-Jadida, to tightening restrictions on Palestinians in Jerusalem.

The three dailies also reported in this regard that Israeli police arrested seven right-wing Jewish Israelis for bringing to goats towards the compound’s Moroccan Gate as a Passover sacrifice.

Covering the theme of latest planned Palestinian house demolitions in Jerusalem, the three dailies reported that Israeli forces stormed the Silwan neighborhood of al-Bustan, where they delivered a notice to demolish a four-storey building.

Regarding settlement construction plans, al-Quds reported that 415 new settler units are being constructed in four Israeli settlements across Jerusalem district.

Al-Quds reported that Sami Janazreh, a Palestinian who has been on a hunger strike for 52 days in protest of his administrative detention, was all of a sudden rushed to a hospital.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that an Israeli female settler physically assaulted a Palestinian child and an international solidarity female activist in Hebron.

The three dailies reported that Palestinian lawmaker and Fatah representative at the Palestinian Legislative Council, Rabiha Diab, passed away aged 62.

K.F.