RAMALLAH, July 30, 2016 (WAFA) – The shooting and injuring of Palestinians by Israeli forces as the latter forcefully dispersed weekly Friday protests across the West Bank hit the front page headlines in Palestinian daily newspapers.

Highlighting Friday protests in its main front page news article, al-Ayyam said scores of Palestinians were shot and injured as Israeli forces quelled weekly peaceful protests.

Al-Quds added forces fired live ammunition and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protestors.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida noted in this regard that protests were held in solidarity with Bilal Kayed, a detainee who has been on a hunger strike for 47 days in protest of his administrative detention without charge or trial, as well as in commemoration of the 2015 Duma arson attack.

On the other hand, al-Quds highlighted a Haaretz report on minutes of meeting dating back to 1970 and detailing how the Hebron settlement of Kiryat Arba was built on a lie.

Al-Quds said an official Israeli document has surfaced confirming how top Israeli military officials, at the initiative of then-Israeli ‘Defense’ Minister Moshe Dayan, utilized deception tactics ]involving the expropriation of Palestinian land for ostensibly military purposes when the true intent was to build first civilian settlements[.

Furthermore, the three dailies covered international condemnations of new Israeli plans to build 323 new settler units in East Jerusalem and 770 others in Gilo settlement.

Al-Quds reported Russain Foreign Ministry as stating that the plans are “at variance with” the recommendations outlined in the recent Middle East Quartet’s report.

Al-Ayyam reported British Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood condemning settlement activity as “undermin]ing[ progress toward a two-state solution.”

In defiance of international condemnations, al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Jerusalem’s Israeli mayor Nir Barkat as reiterating that settlement construction would continue unabated in Jerusalem.

Finally, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted a new report by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem detailing how Israeli soldiers fired “without justification” at a car in al-Ram, killing Palestinian driver Anwar a-Salaimeh.

K.F.