RAMALLAH, August 14, 2017 (WAFA) – Lingering tensions over Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem following a month of civil protests against Israeli measures at the holy compound dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Monday.

The three dailies said a total of 84 far-right Jewish settlers forced their way into the mosque compound under heavy police escort.

They added a Palestinian was shot and wounded when he was detained by Israeli troops in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa.

The dailies also reported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks power to go to war without broad government approval.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida added Netanyahu has “sanctioned the murder of journalists.”

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida added some of Netanyahu’s donors have been funding a Jewish organization that promotes settlement construction in East Jerusalem. 

Al-Quds reported Palestinian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry has called for strengthening Palestinian-Jordanian coordination to confront Israeli violations in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

It highlighted a report by Physicians for Human Rights detailing testimonies on how Israeli forces endangered patients’ lives at al-Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem.

It reported well-informed sources revealing that US President Donald Trump’s delegation was scheduled to visit Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Cairo before making it to Ramallah and Tel Aviv.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Israeli military distributed leaflets in the southern West Bank city of Hebron calling on Palestinian residents to not partake in anti-occupation activities in return for obtaining entry permits to Israel.

Al-Ayyam said Israeli occupation authorities released Iyas Rifai, 34, a resident of Ramallah-district village of Kafr Ein, after serving 11 years in Israeli imprisonment after falling seriously ill while in detention.

It added authorities placed a Palestinian girl in East Jerusalem under home arrest and extended the detention of her father.

It said the Shamasneh family has petitioned the Israeli High Court against a lower court’s eviction order from their home in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah where they have lived since 1964 after the court had ruled that their home was Jewish-owned.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the European Union (EU) expressed their concerns over the imminent threat of eviction of the Shamasneh family from their home that would be handed over to Jewish Israeli settlers as part of a wider Israeli plan to boost Jewish settlements in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood.

They reported Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III slamming the Israeli court decision upholding the 99-year lease of church property to right-wing Jewish settler organizations in Jerusalem’s Old City.

He reportedly warned the court ruling “strikes in the heart of the Christian Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City” and constitutes a “serious assault” against Christian presence in the Holy Land.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Palestinian Health Ministry called for the reopening of an UNRWA-run hospital in the northern West Bank city of Qalqiliya.

It added Israeli forces detained the mother and brother of Omar al-Abed, who was responsible for the July deadly attack in the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish in the West Bank.

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