RAMALLAH, October 28, 2017 (WAFA) – The attempted assassination against the Hamas head of the home security in Gaza, Tawfiq Abu Naim, was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies on Saturday.

The dailies said a bomb was planted in Abu Naim’s car in Nusseirat refugee camp. He suffered moderate injuries.

While al-Quds and al-Ayyam made the assassination attempt their main front page story, al-Hayat al-Jadida printed this story on its front page but in its lower section focusing its headline on Fatah denouncing the attempt saying it aimed at undermining the reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas in Gaza.

The main front page story in al-Hayat al-Jadida, which was also reported in the two other dailies, al-Quds and al-Ayyam, focused on statements by presidential secretary Tayyeb Abdul Rahim in which he strongly criticized remarks by British Prime Minister Theresa May regarding the Balfour centennial. He said these remarks show “ignorance in historical facts and political absurdity.”

The papers also reported on the weekly anti-occupation protests in several areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where a number of Palestinians were injured from the excessive Israeli military crackdown on these protests.

They reported on Israeli settlement expansion plans, particularly in and around occupied East Jerusalem.

The three papers also said winter time in Palestine, in which the clock was set back 60 minutes, started on Saturday. Winter time in Israel starts one day later.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Football Association, criticizing FIFA for not taking a stand against the Israeli  football teams in the illegal settlements.

Al-Quds quoted Bishop Attallah Hanna saying the Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine is going through an “unprecedented catastrophe.” He was referring to sale of church property to Israeli settler groups, which is strongly condemned by the church’s community.

It also said in another story that the United Nations special coordinator for human rights in the occupied territories has called for imposing sanctions on Israel to get it to end its occupation.

In Arab and international news, developments in Syria, Iraq and in Spain were reported on the front page.

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