RAMALLAH, May 29, 2017 (WAFA) – The Israeli government’s approval of a plan to install a cable car to Jerusalem’s Old City hit the front page headlines in local Palestinian dailies.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to “Judaize” Jerusalem’s Old City.

They added the cabinet approved the plan after it held the weekly meeting in tunnels located underneath the Western Wall, known to Muslims as al-Buraq Wall.

Al-Ayyam explained the approved plan involves the installation of a cable car that would link a former railway station in West Jerusalem to the Moroccan (Dung) Gates of Jerusalem’s Old City, located near the Western Wall and Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

The dailies added the Israeli cabinet has also approved the construction of a new settlement near Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.

The dailies also highlighted the decision of Palestinian prisoners to suspend their 41-day mass hungers strike following an agreement between leaders of hunger strikers and Israeli Prison Service (IPS).

They reported head of the Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe announcing 80 percent of hunger strikers’ demands were met.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said the Palestinian cabinet slammed new steps taken by the Hamas movement in the besieged Gaza Strip as a further entrenchment of the Palestinian division.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted the public funeral of late Palestinian ambassador to Poland Azmi Daqqa in Jericho.