RAMALLAH, May 3, 2017 (WAFA) – The resolution passed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) criticizing Israeli policies in East Jerusalem and the besieged Gaza Strip dominated the front page headlines in local Palestinian dailies.
Al-Quds quoted UNESCO affirming is an occupied city and all Israeli measures and actions ]that have altered or purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and in particular the “basic law” on Jerusalem,[ are null and void.”
Al-Ayyam said the UNESCO’s resolution safeguards Palestinian rights to occupied Jerusalem.
President Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump, scheduled today, also hit the headlines.
Al-Quds described the meeting as a “decisive summit” and “an opportunity to present the Palestinian point of view” to Trump.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Abbas affirming he would not agree to a solution that does not guarantee the establishment of the Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The dailies said former Palestinian prisoner, Mazen al-Mughrabi, who died from medical complications sustained during Israeli imprisonment, was laid to his rest.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida Israeli forces shot dead a Jewish Israeli settler thinking he was a Palestinian at Hizma checkpoint, east of Jerusalem.
Al-Ayyam highlighted rallies organized in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails locally and internationally.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the Israeli Supreme Court is set to rule on a petition submitted by the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) and Prisoners’ Affairs Commission to allow hunger strikers to meet lawyers.
Both dailies added in this regard Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki headed to Geneva for a meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on hunger strikers.
Al-Quds said Israeli settlers from the Adam settlement near Ramallah physically assaulted a number of Palestinians near Jaba‘, northeast of Jerusalem, inflicting wounds across their bodies.
Al-Ayyam said a number of Palestinians were injured and others suffocated during clashes with Israeli forces in the Nablus-district villages of Qusra and Madama.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the United Kingdom’s House of Lords calling on government to seriously consider recognizing the state of Palestine.
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