RAMALLAH, June 1, 2017 (WAFA) – News that US President Donald Trump is expected to renew the waiver that keeps the US embassy in Tel Aviv hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies on Thursday.
The three dailies said Trump would likely sign the waiver that keeps the US embassy in Tel Aviv postponing as a result relocating it from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
On the other hand, al-Ayyam opted to highlighted Israeli settlers’ assaults against Palestinians in East Jerusalem in its main news item.
It said extremist Jewish groups carried out provocative tour of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and vandalized Palestinian property in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam added Jordan lodged a protest against extremists’ intrusion into the mosque compound and called on Israel to immediately halt such provocations.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported US State Department stating no formal mechanisms have yet been established for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
They reported Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has pledged in a telephone call with head of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh to find a solution to the electricity crisis in Gaza
Al-Quds said the US Congress is expected to host an anti-Israel forum, sparking outrage among pr-Israel lawmakers.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam spotlighted the 50th anniversary of the June 1967 war, known to Palestinians as the Naksa, or setback in Arabic.
Al-Quds said as the 50th anniversary of the war nears on June 5, Israeli-Palestinian divide widens.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said in this regard recently unearthed Israeli documents on the war reveal that Israel has envisaged the policies of settlement construction since year one of the Israeli occupation.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida covered presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh’s statement responding to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that he wants to maintain military control in the West Bank in the event on any peace agreement.
Abu Rudeineh was reported in al-Ayyam stating Netanyahu’s demands would not lead to peace and would perpetuate the occupation.
He was also reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating: “We will not accept any agreement that keeps any Israeli soldier on the land of the independent state of Palestine.”
They added President Mahmoud Abbas met Japan’s peace envoy to the Middle East Masahiro Chono in Ramallah.
Al-Ayyam said Palestinians marked the 16th anniversary of the death of former Fatah leader and member of PLO’s Executive Committee Feisal Husseini in front of the Orient House.
Al-Ayyam reported the International Labor Organization (ILO) saying five decades of Israeli occupation have created “fragmented and ineffective labor market” in the occupied Arab territories.
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