RAMALLAH, July 11, 2017 (WAFA) – The killing of a Palestinian by Israeli forces following an alleged car-ramming attack near the Bethlehem-district village of Tuqu dominated the front page headlines in local Palestinian dailies.

The dailies reported Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian young man following an alleged car-ramming attack near Tuqu village, south of Bethlehem.

The slain Palestinian was identified as 25-year-old Muhammad Jibril from Tuqu town.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported Israeli forces detained a number of Palestinians and ransacked homes in predawn raids that triggered clashes in the Bethlehem-district refugee camp of Duheisha and town of al-Khader.

Al-Ayyam said Israeli troops detained two Palestinian children during a raid into al-Judeira village, northwest of Jerusalem.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam added Israeli police opened fire on Palestinian homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Issawiya, hitting and injuring a Palestinian child with a concussion bomb that landed in her family home.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported forces opened fire at a number of Palestinians to the east of Jabaliya town in the northern besieged Gaza Strip, injuring two Palestinians, including a critical injury.   

The dailies also reported Israeli intelligence minister Yisrael Katz proposed to annex five settlements into the Jerusalem municipality, while also removing around 100,000 Palestinians from the city’s census.

Al-Quds added the Israeli Land Department put a part of Palestinian property in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan at secret auction attended by settlers attempting to take over the property and legitimate Palestinian heirs.

It added settlers attempted to take over a tract of land belonging to a Palestinian family in the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan, just south of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City.

It said an Israeli by-pass road around Jerusalem connects Israeli Jewish settlements and cuts Palestinian neighborhoods from free access from East Jerusalem.

Al-Quds said US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt arrived in the region to hold talks with Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbas.

Al-Ayyam added Israel called on Greenblatt to focus on a regional arrangement to normalize relations with Arab states.

Al-Quds said Netanyahu decided to build a historical Jewish center in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan and a museum in Kiryat Arba settlement.

It explained Netanyahu took this decision in response to a recent UNESCO’s resolution to inscribe Hebron’s Old City and Ibrahimi Mosque on the World Heritage in Danger list.

Al-Quds reported retired Palestinian major-general Wassef Erekat stating Israel was not interested in peace talks as long as the West Bank-Gaza division persists.

Al-Ayyam reported Governor of Jerusalem Adnan Husseini warning the so-called Israeli “Unified Jerusalem” bill threatens to plunge the region into violence.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said France, Germany and Britain condemned recent Israeli settlement construction plans in East Jerusalem.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida claimed the Hamas movement imposed 400 percent taxes on fuel imported from Egypt to the besieged Gaza enclave.

It reported Amnesty International stating Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar and head of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees Khitam al-Saafin suffered a serious abuse and inhumane treatment by Israeli Prison Service in the Israeli prison of Hasharon.

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