RAMALLAH, August 13, 2016 (WAFA) – Suppressing weekly Friday marches by Israeli forces across the West Bank hit the front page headlines in Palestinian daily newspapers.
The three dailies reported Israeli forces suppressed weekly marches across the West Bank, shooting and injuring scores of Palestinians and a number of international activists and/or causing them to suffocate.
Al-Ayyam explained that marches were held in protest of ongoing settlement and wall construction and in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, especially Bilal Kayid, who entered the 61st day of his hunger strike.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Palestinians held rallies in solidarity with hunger strikers in Jerusalem, Jenin and the Ramallah town of Beit Ur.
The three dailies also reported in this regard that Amnesty International urged Israel to charge or release Kayed.
Highlighting the situation in Jerusalem, especially at flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, al-Ayyam said Israeli police conducted large-scale detention raids across Jerusalem on the eve of Jewish settler ‘Temple Mount’ organizations’ calls for mass intrusions into the mosque compound.
Highlighting Israel’s plan to lure Palestinian East Jerusalem schools into teaching Israeli curricula as a precondition for receiving funds for renovation purposes, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israel expunged all religious and national texts related to Palestine from the curricula.
Al-Quds explained Israel expunged all interpretations of Quran verses related to Palestine and all Palestinian national poems.
The three dailies reported the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stating Israel has stepped up the demolition of Palestinians structures in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israel seeks to seize ‘private’ Palestinian lands, north of Ramallah, to relocate the settlement outpost of Amona.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said a Palestinian young man was run over by an Israeli settler driving a vehicle, south of Hebron.
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