RAMALLAH, November 28, 2017 (WAFA) – The arrival of an Egyptian security delegation in Gaza to monitor the implementation of the reconciliation agreement dominated the front page headlines in the Palestinian dailies on Tuesday.

The arrival of the delegation comes amidst reports that the implementation of the agreement is not going as planned.

Member of Fatah Central Committee Azzam al-Ahmad was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida blaming Hamas’ lack of will for not empowering the government in Gaza.

He reportedly said: “If Hamas has the will, empowering the government will not take more than 15 minutes.”

Palestinian ambassador to Egypt Diab al-Louh was reported in al-Quds describing Egypt as a firm sponsor of reconciliation.

The dailies reported Israeli occupation authorities have approved a hiking trail that goes through the occupied West Bank and the Golan Heights, which was condemned by the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism.

Al-Quds reported Israeli occupation authorities have set up a number of new mobile homes in the heart of the southern West Bank city of Hebron to increase Jewish presence in the Palestinian city.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israeli forces demolished a commercial structure in Beit Enoun village, east of Hebron.

Al-Quds said Al-Quds International Institution has commended the Islamic Religious Endowment (Waqf) Department for its report on Israeli violations at Al-Aqsa Mosque in July when Muslim refused to enter it for two weeks in protest and Israeli police tampering with the manuscripts and title deeds of Waqf property.

It also reported Palestinians living in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan have rejected Israel’s Supreme Court’s ruling to offer them open spaces in return for the so-called “National Park.”

The “National Park” has been built by Elad, a private Jewish settler group, on Palestinian land that was confiscated by Israeli occupation authorities following the occupation of East Jerusalem in June 1967.

The “National Park” project is a part of efforts by Elad and other settler groups (organizations) to forcefully displace Palestinians from East Jerusalem in line with the policy championed by successive Israeli governments to “Judaize” Jerusalem.

Moreover, al-Quds said the issue of closing the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) office in Washington, DC remains uncertain following the US Administration’s reversal of the decision.

Furthermore, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said President Mahmoud Abbas commended South Africa’s firm support of the Palestinian question during a meeting with the grandson of Nilson Mandela, Mandla Mandela, in Ramallah.

Mandela was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating that the Palestinian people is suffering from the worst ever apartheid.

Al-Ayyam said Israeli occupation forces have dug up several tombs in a cemetery in Kufr Aqab, north of Jerusalem.

According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli forces seized eight Palestinian-owned vehicles in Beit Iksa, east of Jerusalem, and detained 20 Palestinians in West Bank overnight raids.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported on Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah expressing support for the residents of Jabal al-Baba in East Jerusalem, whom Israel wants to uproot from their homes in order to build a big settlement in that area known as E1.

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