RAMALLAH, June 29, 2017 (WAFA) – The Palestinian cabinet’s extraordinary session in Ramallah, which was chaired by President Mahmoud Abbas, was the highlight of the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies on Thursday.
The dailies said the cabinet discussed efforts to bring about national reconciliation, noting such efforts were based on disbanding the Hamas-formed administrative committee that runs the Gaza Strip. It also discussed efforts to rebuild Gaza homes destroyed in the 2014 Israeli war.
The cabinet also reviewed traffic laws in the wake of the deadly car accident that left seven Palestinians dead, including a mother and her five children, on Route 60 between Ramallah and Nablus.
The dailies also highlighted the Israeli army killing of a Palestinian in Hebron in the southern West Bank.
Al-Quds said a Palestinian was killed in an exchange of gunfire with Israeli forces in Hebron.
Al-Ayyam added the Israeli forces were undercover units and the slain Palestinian was identified as Iyad Ghaith, 22, from Hebron.
Al-Ayyam added a Palestinian woman was detained by Israeli troops at a military checkpoint north of Bethlehem for allegedly possessing a knife.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Israeli forces detained a total of 19 Palestinians, including a parliamentarian, during overnight raids across the West Bank.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida added Israeli settlers from Yitzhar settlement set fire to extensive tracts of lands belonging to the nearby Palestinian village of Burin in the northern West Bank district of Nablus.
It also said Israeli troops raided Deheisheh refugee camp and Tuqou village in Bethlehem district, triggering clashes with Palestinian residents.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Israeli forces seized some 60 solar panels in the village of Jubbet al-Dhib, east of Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank.
The dailies said a Palestinian child was killed and at least 12 others injured in traffic accidents in Hebron and Jenin districts.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida added thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral procession of six members of the Dabash family who were killed in the multi-car crash on Route 60 between Ramallah and Nablus.
The dailies added the Palestinian Higher Council of Traffic would convene Thursday to discuss measures to reduce traffic accidents.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said Hamas has started to establish a 100-meter-wide “buffer zone” along the Gaza Strip’s southern border with Egypt.
Al-Quds reported the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights warning against the deterioration of humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza enclave.
Al-Quds reported Palestinian member of Israeli parliament Ahmad Tibi saying during his participation in the Socialists and Democrats Group’s conference in Brussels that Israel was pursuing a policy of discrimination against the Palestinians.
Al-Ayyam reported the United States denying reports that US President Donald Trump was considering pulling out of Palestinian-Israeli peace efforts.
It also reported the Orthodox Church Council in Nazareth slamming the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theofilos III for selling large area of land in Jerusalem for Jewish investors and businessmen.
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