RAMALLAH, August 18, 2017 (WAFA) – Blowing up the family home of a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli forces along with two other Palestinians in June following a deadly attack in East Jerusalem hit the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies.

The dailies said Israeli forces blew up the family home of Adel Ankoush in the village of Deir Abu Mashaal, northwest of Ramallah.

Ankoush was one of three Palestinians who committed a deadly attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on June 16, killing an Israeli border police officer.

While al-Quds and al-Ayyam covered blowing up the family home of Ankoush as their main new item, al-Hayat al-Jadida opted to highlight the van-ramming attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State group in Barcelona.

The dailies said a van ploughed into crowds of tourists in Barcelona, killing at least 13 people and injuring at least 80.

The dailies added Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the “terror attack” and expressed their condolences to King Felipe VI of Spain and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

They added Abbas held a meeting with European Union representative Ralph Tarraf in Ramallah, while al-Hayat al-Jadida added Abbas reiterated his determination to end the intra-Palestinian political division during the meeting.

The dailies also reported Israeli forces delivered a stop-construction order for a Palestinian school, located to the east of Bethlehem.

Al-Quds reported Israeli forces shot and injured a number of Palestinians with live and rubber-coated steel bullets in a raid into Bethlehem-district Aida refugee camp.

Al-Ayyam also reported Israeli forces detained 18 Palestinians in multiple raids across the West Bank.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israeli military bulldozers razed Palestinian land to the east of Hebron-district town of Yatta in the southern West Bank.

Moreover, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israel plans to establish a new settlement in the northern Jordan Valley.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said an Israeli court ruled to postpone the eviction of the Shamasneh family from their home in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

The Shamsneh family was handed an Israeli court order, asking them to leave their home, which they have rented since 1964, in order to turn it over to Israeli Jewish settlers as part of a wider Israeli plan to boost Jewish settlements in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) General Delegation to the United States Ambassador Hussam Zomlot stating no power could separate the besieged Gaza Strip from the Palestinian state and people.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported former United Nations human rights investigator and emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University Richard Falk stating the only way to being the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to an end is the South African scenario.

It also reported Minister of Public Housing and Works Mufeed Hasayneh announcing the ministry has published a US$ 15 million call for tenders for infrastructure development in Gaza city and the central Gaza Strip.

The dailies also highlighted the suicide bombing that killed a member of Hamas security forces at the border between besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt.

Al-Quds said the suicide bombing was widely condemned by the Palestinian officials and public in Gaza as calls were made for eradicating the “aberrant ideology” behind this bombing.

Al-Ayyam said Hamas security forces cracked down on “Jihadist Salafits” in the besieged coastal enclave.

Al-Quds said the Palestinian officials maintained the Palestinian National Council (PNC) would convene soon and called for circumventing attempts to disrupt the PNC session.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported member of Fatah Central Committee Azzam al-Ahmad stressing the importance of convening PNC.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida finally reported Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki was scheduled to meet his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts in Cairo.