RAMALLAH, November 29, 2016 (WAFA) – The opening of the seventh conference of Fatah movement on Tuesday was the main focus of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

The main front page headline in al-Ayyam said: “Fatah conference today: Agreement expected on the program and hot competition on the seats of the Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council.”

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said: “The president opens today Fatah seventh conference with an important and all-encompassing political speech.”

Al-Quds said: “An important speech for the president on the latest political developments; Fatah opens its seventh conference today”

The papers published also several stories on the conference and what is expected from it as well as who among Fatah leaders are running for a seat in the Central Committee, the highest governing body in the movement. The most prominent names include Saeb Erekat, who will rerun for the seat, and former parliament speaker and prime minister Ahmad Qurei.

Al-Quds published an interview with Central Committee member Jibril Rjoub on the Fatah conference.

Other front pages stories focused on the case of the two Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farrah. They said the prisoners rejected a deal to transfer them to Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem instead of staying at an Israeli hospital in return for ending their strike. The deal was turned down because the Israeli court had only suspended their administrative detention rather than cancel it.

They also published the story about the two life terms plus 16 years and almost $100,000 in compensation to the wounded an Israeli court had passed against Raed Khalil, 36, from Yatta, Hebron district, after he was found guilty of killing two Israelis and injuring others in a Tel Aviv attack last year.

Al-Quds said armed men opened fire at an Israeli military post at the settlement of Ofra, near Ramallah.

The paper also wrote about the anniversary of the November 29, 1947 partition of Palestine UN resolution.

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