RAMALLAH, February 4, 2018 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on Sunday news about the Palestinian youth who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Al-Quds, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Ahmad Samir Abu Obeid, 19, from the city of Jenin, was shot in the head and critically injured on Saturday during clashes with Israeli soldiers near Jenin, north of the West Bank. Abu Obeid died of his wounds hours later.
The dailies also said the Israeli army raided several areas in the Jenin district all day long on Saturday and searched several homes. The soldiers were apparently searching for a Palestinian who allegedly killed an Israeli settler in a drive-by shooting near Nablus last month.
The raids focused on the village of Burqin, south of Jenin, where residents clashed with the soldiers who fired live bullets and teargas to disperse them. A number of Palestinians were reportedly detained during the raid.
The meeting of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah was also highlighted.
The newspapers said the Committee decided to seek action against the Israeli occupation at the United Nations Security Council, the General Assembly, and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
They also said that the Committee asked the government to begin devising plans to disengage from the Israeli occupation authorities at the political, security, economic and administrative levels.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Palestine’s ambassador to the EU, Abdul Rahim al-Farra, said the European Union’s Political and Security Committee discussed in its session on Wednesday a secret report that strongly criticized Israel and its policies, and also discussed the situation in occupied East Jerusalem in particular.
Al-Ayyam said that Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at a site in the city of Rafah, to the south of the Gaza Strip, before drones fired two more missiles at the same site, causing damage but no injuries.
Israeli security sources said that the Gaza Strip is collapsing and that economical and humanitarian crisis is exacerbating, according to al-Quds and al-Ayyam.
The Knesset’s Joint Arab List MK Ahmad Tibi said that US President Donald Trump’s consultants’ ideas are nothing but old Israeli ideas that were rejected in the past and would be rejected again because they don’t represent the minimum of the legitimate Palestinian rights, as reported in al-Quds.
Israeli politician and Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay said that Israel needs a leader who would seize the opportunity for a two-state solution.
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