RAMALLAH, February 10, 2017 (WAFA) – The Israeli drone airstrike on a tunnel between Gaza and Egypt and the shooting and stabbing attack in the central Israeli town of Petah Tikva hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

The three dailies reported two Palestinians were killed when an Israeli drone pounded a tunnel between Gaza and Egypt.

Al-Ayyam added five other Palestinians were injured during an airstrike that targeted a borderline commercial tunnel. It reported the Israeli military denied bring involved in the airstrike.

Furthermore, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported five Israelis were injured in a shooting and stabbing attack in the central Israeli town of Petah Tikva. Al-Ayyam said the injured totaled six.

The dailies added Israeli police detained a Sadek Nasser, 19, from the Nablus-district village of Beita for being the suspect perpetrator.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida also highlighted politicized Israeli archeological excavations, south of East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in their main news articles.

Al-Quds said Israel inaugurated a new path running among Jewish ritual baths on the ruins of the Umayyad mosques, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida warned the Umayyad mosques are jeopardized as a result of Jewish settler groups known as “Temple Mount” organizations.

Also regarding Jerusalem, al-Quds published a report spotlighting Israeli movement restrictions on Palestinians living in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ewais.

It added the Catholic Center for Human Rights (Society of St. Yves) petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court over Israeli restrictions causing commercial collapse in East Jerusalem.

President Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel in Brussels also hit the front headlines in the dailies.

Al-Quds reported Abbas as pledging to continue to work with international courts ]to protect the existence and presence of the Palestinian people in their state[.

Abbas was also reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida as calling on the international community to enforce the United Nations Security Council resolution 2334.

He was quoted in al-Hayat al-Jadida as stating: “The world needs to differentiate between the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, and the state of Israel.”

Furthermore, al-Quds reported PLO Ambassador to the US Maen Erekat as stating Palestinian leadership is awaiting to see the peacemaking steps to be taken by US President Donald Trump.

Al-Ayyam said general intelligence chief Majid Faraj met with White House security officials in the first meetings between Palestinian officials and the new US administration.

Highlighting Israeli settlers and forces’ assaults against Palestinians, the three dailies said settlers uprooted and stole hundreds of olive seedlings from Palestinian land in the Bethlehem-district town of al-Khader.

Al-Ayyam said armed Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinian farmers and herders in the northern Jordan Valley.

Al-Ayyam said Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian youths during separate raids into the Bethlehem-district refugee camps of Duheisha and Aida.

Highlighting detention raids, al-Ayyam said forces detained 11 Palestinians, including two minors, during overnight detention raids across the West Bank.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israeli forces have detained a total of 71 Palestinians in West Bank raids since the start of this week (Sunday February 5).

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported the Yesh Council settler group as saying over 421,000 Israeli Jewish settlers live in the West Bank settlements, excluding Jerusalem.

Moreover, al-Ayyam reported Israel “reprimanded” Belgium’s ambassador to Israel following a meeting between Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and two leftist Israeli organizations.

It said Israel is concerned that the Irish parliament would soon move to recognize the state of Palestine.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Palestinian ambassador to Egypt Jamal Al-Shobaki describing Palestinian-Egyptian coordination in the context efforts to halt Israeli settlement construction as ongoing and strategic.