RAMALLAH, January 21, 2018 (WAFA) – News about clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in several areas in the occupied West Bank dominated the front pages of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies on Sunday.
Al-Quds, al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam said tens of Palestinians Saturday suffocated after inhaling tear gas fired at them by Israeli forces during clashes that erupted in the town of Jaba’ to the south of Jenin.
A Palestinian paramedic was shot and injured in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet during clashes that broke out in Kufr Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia.
According to the papers, Israeli forces suppressed a rally that took place in Saladin Street in the old city of Jerusalem, to protest the US recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel.
Al-Ayyam reported on Saeb Erekat, Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), saying that the US President Donald Trump’s peace deal includes a Palestinian state with some parts of the lands. It also includes a Palestinian capital in the suburbs of Jerusalem.
The papers said prisoner Hussein Atallah, 57, Saturday died of cancer inside the Israeli prison of Ramla.
Al-Quds reported that US Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Jordan to start talks with King Abdullah II. He made a first stop in Egypt to conduct talks with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and is soon expected to arrive in Israel as part of an official four-day visit to the Middle East.
A-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Malki called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, to exercise her statutory authority, without delay, to prevent the continuation and perpetuation of crimes against the Palestinian people.
Al-Ayyam said the Israeli government paid $5 million to the families to the two men who were shot dead by an Israeli security guard in the Israeli embassy last July.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the Arab members of the Joint List in the Israeli Knesset will boycott Pence’s speech during his visit to Israel.
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