RAMALLAH, November 4, 2017 (WAFA) – Two of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on their Saturday front page the funeral of Mohammad Mousa, 26, who was shot dead earlier last week by Israelis at the entrance to the illegal Halamish settlement, northwest of Ramallah.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported on this event and printed picture of Mousa’s mother mourning her son during the funeral in the village of Deir Ballout, near Salfit in the north of the West Bank.
The third daily, al-Quds, also reported this story but did not highlight it like the others. However, its main front page story covered another controversial incident that also involves Israel.
It said the Islamic Jihad announced the death of the five members who were in the tunnel Israel had blown up last week south of Gaza. The death toll was originally seven but when Israel attempted to blackmail the Palestinians to allow them to dig out the missing five, the Islamic Jihad pronounced them dead and buried at the location.
Al-Quds printed picture of the 12 people killed in the tunnel attack.
In other stories, the events that marked the Balfour Declaration were also reported on the front page of the dailies with al-Quds saying in a top story that Israeli forces cracked down on the peaceful protests that came out in the Palestinian territories to denounce the Declaration on its 100 year anniversary.
It said the Friday sermon at Al-Aqsa Mosque focused on the Balfour Declaration and called on Britain to acknowledge its historic mistake toward the Palestinian people.
Al-Ayyam quoted a defiant British prime minister, Theresa May, hailing the Balfour Declaration in front of her Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu at a dinner party held on this occasion in London.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted a vote at UNESCO in favor of Palestinian education.
It also said two Israeli businessmen were involved in the sale of Orthodox Church property in Palestine to Israeli settler groups.
It said 61 years have passed for the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip following the tripartite aggression against Egypt.
Al-Ayyam said Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), had his first official meeting in Washington following his recovery from lung transplant at a US hospital.
Al-Quds said President Mahmoud Abbas is going to attend a conference on youth to be held in Sharm al-Sheikh in the Sinai in the presence of representatives from 52 countries.
It said in a different story that Palestinian workers from Qalqilya wait in the nearby Arab Israeli town of Kfar Saba for Israeli employers to pick them up in a very racist environment and conditions.
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