RAMALLAH, July 23, 2016 (WAFA)  - The shooting attack or rampage at the Olympia mall in Munich and quelling weekly Friday protests across the West Bank by Israeli forces hit the front page headlines in Palestinian daily newspapers.

Highlighting the shooting attack in its main front page news article, al-Quds said that the state of emergency was announced in Munich following the killing of nine people in a mall attack.

Al-Ayyam said that several people were killed and others injured in the shooting, while al-Hayat al-Jadida described the attack as “bloody”.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida added President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his and the Palestinian people’s support and solidarity with the German people.

Israeli forces’ quelling of weekly Friday protests across the West Bank also hit the front page headlines in al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida.

Both dailies reported scores of protestors were shot and injured as Israeli forces quelled the weekly peaceful marches across the West Bank. Al-Quds added that among the injured were international activists.    

Both dailies also reported that Israeli forces sealed the entrances of Palestinian villages and towns in the eastern and western parts of the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem ]using large cement blocks and setting up checkpoints[.

Besides, al-Quds said that the salaries of the employees of the former government of Gaza for the month of July would be paid once the Qatari grant is received.

It said Israel announced that it resumed diplomatic relations with Chad after over 40 years of estrangement.

Al-Quds said Israeli forces maintained its blockade on the southern West Bank district of Hebron, setting up checkpoints and imposing closures, turning Hebron into a prison.

Al-Ayyam said six-year-old Ahmad Dawabsha was released from an Israeli hospital and returned to his hometown of Duma after almost a year to the date that his parents and 18-month-old brother were murdered by Israeli Jewish settlers in an arson attack.

Finally, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 Michael Lynk as stating: “The existence and spread of the Israeli settlements amount to a grave breach of international law.”

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