RAMALLAH, December 1, 2017 (WAFA) – The killing of a Palestinian farmer by Israeli Jewish settlers hit the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Friday.

The dailies reported a Palestinian farmer was killed by an Israeli Jewish settler while he was tending his field near the village of Qusra, south of Nablus city in the West Bank.

The farmer, identified as Mahmoud Oudeh, 48, was killed by Israeli Jewish settlers who trespassed on his field near the village.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida added President Mahmoud Abbas’ Office decried the killing as a “cowardly act” and called for prosecuting the perpetrators.

According to al-Quds and al-Ayyam, settlers also assaulted Palestinians in Asira al-Qibliya and Sebastia villages, southwest and northwest of Nablus, as well as in Silat al-Dhahr town, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank.

Al-Quds also reported extremist Israeli Jewish settlers assaulted a Palestinian woman and her daughter in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Furthermore, the dailies said that three Palestinians were injured as Israeli warplanes targeted several posts in the northern besieged Gaza Strip.

Al-Quds added the ]Palestinian[ government has warned against mounting attacks by Israeli occupation forces and settlers against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The dailies said President Mahmoud Abbas has officially launched the third phase of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017, which represents the actual count of the population.  

Al-Ayyam added in this regard the actual count of the population would be carried out by 11,000 personnel within 24 days.

According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, Abbas commended Saudi Arabia’s significant support to the Palestinian question.

Al-Quds said Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah paid an inspection visit to Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem.

He was reported as stating that protecting Jerusalem ]from Israeli occupation[ makes it imperative that the Palestinian people join forces in order to reinforce the city’s stature and identity.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said Israel has closed commercial border crossings with Gaza for the third consecutive day following personnel’s strike.

The dailies covered US Vice President Mike Pence’s statements earlier this week that Donald Trump was actively considering “when and how” to move the US embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

They reported the White House’s Press Secretary Sarah Sanders stating that these reports were “premature”.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda saying she would not open a full-scale investigation into the storming of a humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza by Israeli forces in 2010.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II was reported in al-Quds stating that the lack of a solution to the Palestinian question would keep the Middle East region vulnerable to tensions.

Hamas movement was reported in al-Quds saying that Israel’s barring of Swiss officials from entering the besieged coastal enclave was “inhuman”.

Al-Quds also reported that ten US senators have written to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him not to demolish the Palestinian villages of Susiya near Hebron and Khan al-Ahmar near East Jerusalem.

Al-Ayyam reported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has decried the organizers of Giro d‘Italia, one of the most prestigious bicycle races, for “giving in to Israel’s blackmail”.

The controversial plans of the organizers to stage the opening of the bicycle race in West Jerusalem and unveiling a route that remains inside occupied East Jerusalem.

The organizers reportedly gave in to Israeli blackmail after they changed the wording of the ad, using Jerusalem instead of the term “West Jerusalem”.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Israeli occupation authorities plan to seize privately-owned Palestinian lands to construct a wastewater treatment plant for Ofra settlement near Ramallah.

 Finally, al-Hayat al-Jadida said Palestine and China signed a memorandum of understanding on a free trade feasibility study.