RAMALLAH, December 8, 2016 (WAFA) - The news that the so-called “Regularization Bill” had passed a first reading in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies on Thursday.

Al-Quds said the bill paves the way for Israeli annexation of Area C of the West Bank and would end the two-state solution.

Highlighting official reactions to the bill, al-Quds reported the US State Department as expressing concern over the bill.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the Joint Arab List of the Knesset as stating if ultimately approved, the bill would constitute an indictment against the Israeli government.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported secretary-general of the PLO’s executive committee, Saeb Erekat, as announcing the Palestinian leadership would seek a UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlement construction.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said the Knesset has postponed a bill that would the Muslim call to prayer in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem.

Highlighting West Bank raids, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said Israeli forces shot and injured several Palestinians and detained others during a raid that sparked clashes in the Jerusalem area refugee camp of Shufat.

Al-Quds added Israeli forces ordered Palestinian residents of Ras al-Ahmar locality in the northern Jordan Valley not to put up power lines in their area.

It added Israeli forces evicted Palestinian families from their homes in the northern Jordan Valley to make room for military drills.

Besides, al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israeli forces delivered a stop-construction order for a Palestinian housing project in the Bethlehem district village of Husan.

It added a total of 18 Palestinians were detained during overnight raids across the West Bank.

Highlighting the economic collapse of East Jerusalem, al-Quds reported PLO Negotiations Affairs Department as stating Israel has stepped up its policies that restrict Palestinian presence in Jerusalem.

Spotlighting French efforts to convene the international peace conference, al-Quds reported presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh as stating the Palestinian leadership has not received any invitation to attend the conference.

He was also reported in al-Ayyam as stating Israel is responding to international efforts to convene the conference with further settlement construction.

He was also reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida as stating the leadership agrees to whatever decision France would take regarding the conference.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida added the Gulf Cooperation Council reiterated support to the French bid to convene the conference.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida added in this regard Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a French proposal to hold a meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas unless the conference is cancelled.

Al-Ayyam said two Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed in a tunnel collapse east of Gaza.

Highlighting the critical health conditions of hunger-striking detainees Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farah, al-Ayyam said they slipped into an intermittent coma and lost ability to see and speak.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said following over five months in Israeli administrative detention and 75 days of hunger strike, the brothers, Muhammad and Mahmoud Balboul, are set to be released and were expected back in their home in Bethlehem on Thursday.

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