RAMALLAH, May 31, 2016 (WAFA)- Confirming the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as a Israel’s ‘Defense’ Minister and detaining a Palestinian following an alleged stabbing attack in Tel Aviv hit the front page headlines in the dailies.

The three dailies reported that the Knesset (Israeli parliament) approved the appointment of Lieberman as Israel ‘Defense’ Minister.

The dailies also reported that a Palestinian minor was detained by Israeli police after he allegedly stabbed a soldier in Tel Aviv.

Al-Ayyam also reported that Israeli police also detained three Palestinians for being suspected of involvement in an alleged stabbing attack against two elderly Israeli women earlier this month in East Jerusalem.

The large-scale Israeli detention raids across the West Bank also hit the front page headlines in the dailies.

The dailies reported that Israeli forces detained at least 24 Palestinians, including a woman and minors, from the West Bank. Al-Ayyam reported 20 Palestinians were detained.

Highlighting other Israeli forces and settlers’ assaults against Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza, al-Quds reported that settlers fenced off four ancient rock-hewn villages in the northern West Bank district of Salfit.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that Israeli forces forcefully displaced tens of Palestinian families from their residential structures in the Jordan Valley purportedly to make room for military drills.

Al-Quds reported UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl as announcing that UNRWA’s financial deficit was reduced from 81 to $74 million.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Hamas-affiliated police officers denied a delegation from the Ministry of Education from observing the progress of ongoing high school exams (Tawjihi) in Gaza.

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