RAMALLAH, October 10, 2016 (WAFA) – The fatal shooting of a Palestinian gunman after he killed two Israelis in a drive-by shooting near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies on Monday.

A gunman opened fire at Israelis killing two, including a police officer before he was shot and killed, Al-Quds said seven Israelis were shot and injured.

The dailies identified the gunman as 39-year-old Misbah Abu Sbeih from the Jerusalem town of Silwan. Abu Sbeih had been banned entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. According to al-Ayyam, he was supposed to turn himself to Israeli police to serve four-month sentence.

The demolition of Palestinian structures in the Toubas district village of Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley also hit the front page headlines in the dailies.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Israeli bulldozers knocked down 34 Palestinian residential and agricultural structures in the Jordan Valley.

Al-Ayyam said bulldozers demolished 40 structures and water lines. It described the demolition as an earthquake that struck the area.

Al-Quds added that Israeli bulldozers also demolished seven Palestinian homes in the Naqab in the south of the country.

Highlighting latest construction plans across the West Bank, al-Quds said Israel had seized lands belonging to the Salfit district village of Deir Istia to expand the nearby settlement of Ravava.

It added the Israeli settlement of Leshem in Salfit district is tearing up rocks and snatching up lands near the archeological site of Khirbet Deir Samaan, (St. Simion’s Monastery).

The dailies highlighted Israeli cabinet decision to expand the activity of the settlement division.

Al-Quds reported Palestinian Foreign Ministry demanding that Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett be banned entry into countries all over the world.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Bennett called to pardon the French-Israeli soldier Elor Azaria who shot dead Abdul-Fattah al-Sharif in March while lying wounded on the ground in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Highlighting detentions, al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians during overnight raids across the West Bank.

It reported right-wing Israeli Jewish organizations called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for allowing Jewish followers to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said a Palestinian laborer was killed and seven others injured when a scaffold collapsed at a construction site in the Ramallah neighborhood of al-Masyoun.

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