RAMALLAH, November 10, 2017 (WAFA) – Rallies commemorating the 13th anniversary of the death of iconic leader Yasser Arafat across the West Bank dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Friday.
The dailies reported Palestinians launched rallies and events commemorating the 13th anniversary of Arafat’s death across the West Bank.
They added the main anniversary commemoration rally would be held at the Saraya grounds in Gaza on Saturday November 11.
They printed photos showing participants raising pictures of the late leader along with Palestinian and Fatah flags and banners.
Furthermore, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported member of Fatah Central Committee Nasser al-Qudwa reiterating earlier accusations that Israel had been responsible for Arafat’s death.
Al-Qudwa was reported in al-Ayyam stating it was impossible to downplay Israel’s full responsibility for Arafat’s assassination and in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating Israel was politically and criminally liable for Arafat’s assassination.
The dailies reported President Mahmoud Abbas held separate meetings with Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and head of Lebanon’s Directorate of General Security Major General Abbas Ibrahim in Amman.
Abbas was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stressing the importance of effective European Union’s participation in a multi-lateral peace process and urging the world to recognize the Palestinian state.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Palestine has won the position of the rapporteur of the UNESCO’s cultural committee.
Al-Quds said the pro-Israel lobby in Washington, AIPAC, has stepped up its efforts to pressurize US President Donald Trump to relocate the US embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported Egypt has invited Palestinian political factions to attend the upcoming round of Palestinian talks in Cairo on November 21.
They added Palestinian Bar Association held a sit-in protest in front of the Council of Ministers in Ramallah, condemning the arrest of a lawyer by security services.
Highlighting the first European anti-settlement conference organized by the PLO’s Expatriates Affairs Department in Brussels, al-Quds said the conference’s final statement stressed that Israeli settlement construction was a “war crime” and undermined the two-state solution.
According to al-Ayyam, Israeli forces detained 12 Palestinians, including a girl, in multiple overnight raids across the West Bank.
Al-Quds said Israeli forces injured a Palestinian child with a rubber-coated steel bullet in Ramallah-district village of Nabi Saleh and detained another purportedly for having a knife in his possession near Ramallah.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the Israeli government plans to double the number of Israeli Jewish settlers in the Jordan Valley.
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