RAMALLAH, April 21, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli forces’ violent suppression of Palestinian marches and rallies in support of hunger-striking Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said Israeli forces suppressed marches in solidarity with hunger-striking detainees in Abu Dis town, southeast of Jerusalem, and outside the Ofer prison near Beitunia town, shooting and injuring two Palestinians and causing others to suffocate.
Al-Quds reported the major mass open-ended “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike launched by over 1,600 Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails entered its fifth day.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam added Israeli Prison Service (IPS) imposed more punitive measures on hunger strikers and transferred many of them.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida added Israeli settlers, reportedly members of Israel’s right-wing National Religious Party, typically known by its Hebrew name “Mafdal”, held a barbeque in front of Israel’s Ofer jail to taunt Palestinian hunger strikers.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida described this settlers’ barbeque as an “unparalleled aggressive precedent.”
The dailies added Israeli forces stormed and ransacked the family home of 21-year-old Suhaib Mashahra during an overnight raid into the Jerusalem district village of Sheikh Saad.
Mashahra was shot dead by Israeli forces on Wednesday evening after he hit an Israeli bus with his car at a junction near the Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem.
Al-Ayyam added forces detained nine Palestinians during multiple predawn raids across a number of West Bank districts. Al-Hayat al-Jadida said detainees totaled eight.
The dailies added a Palestinian girl was injured after being deliberately hit by an Israeli settler in the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem.
The girl was hit while she was walking on a sidewalk in the town, adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Tekoa.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam also reported Israeli military authorities have allowed 200 Palestinian businessmen to enter Israel with their private Palestinian-registered vehicles.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said Israel is concerned as Palestinians successfully lobby FIFA to ban football clubs based in illegal Israeli settlements across the West Bank.
AL-Hayat al-Jadida reported Barcelona City Council voted to condemn Israeli occupation and adopt the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian human rights.
It added Palestinian prosecution successfully detected truckloads of illegal toxic waste from an Israeli in the northern west Bank district of Salfit.
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