RAMALLAH, March 4, 2017 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on their Saturday front page the Israeli army crackdown on the weekly anti-settlements, anti-wall protests in the West Bank.
The papers printed a picture of Palestine TV correspondent Ahmad Shawar getting medical treatment after he was hit by an Israeli army rubber bullet to the head while covering the protests in Kufr Qaddoum, Qalqiliya area.
Papers also printed pictures of Palestinian youths attacking an Israeli army vehicle in the village of Nabi Saleh, west of Ramallah.
The main front page story in al-Quds focused on the opening of a new road in the south of Jerusalem that will be used as an access road for the construction of a new settlement to the north of Bethlehem.
It also said Israel plans to build 12 new plants in the Qalandiya industrial area known also at Atarot.
It also said Palestinian hunger striker Jamal Abu Leil has urged his supporters in Qalandiya refugee camp not to shut down the Ramallah-Jerusalem road that goes through Qalandiya as was the case in the last couple of weeks disrupting Palestinian traffic and movement between the two cities and between the north and south of the West Bank.
Abu Leil, from Qalandiya refugee camp, went on hunger strike in an Israeli jai to protest his detention without charge or trial. His supporters have been carrying out protest activities on the road leading to the Israeli army-controlled Qalandiya checkpoint causing serious traffic jams for Palestinian commuters.
Qalandiya activists have been planning to shut down the road between Tuesday and Thursday of the coming week to pressure the Palestinian Authority to work on getting Abu Leil released.
Al-Quds also said the family of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shufat who was burnt alive by Israelis in 2014, said if the Israeli government refuses to demolish the residences of the killers, as it does for the Palestinians, then it will go to the International Criminal Court in The Hague with this matter.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Socialist International has named former Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Shaath as deputy to its president.
Al-Ayyam said Israel believes that Hamas will take the next battle into Israel through the Gaza underground tunnels if a new conflict erupts between the two sides.
The papers also said a US congressional team is arriving in Israel later Saturday to look into the possibility of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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