RAMALLAH, February 6, 2018 (WAFA) – The killing of an Israeli settler in a stabbing attack in Ariel settlement in the northern West Bank hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies on Tuesday.

Al-Quds reported Israeli media claiming the assailant is a young man from Jaffa.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Israeli forces launched large-scale manhunt for the alleged assailant.

According to al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli Jewish settlers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles in the northern West Bank, injuring several people.

They added that Israeli forces raided Burqin town, west of Jenin, injuring at least two Palestinians with live rounds.

The dailies said President Mahmoud Abbas received a delegation of Egyptian Coptic clerics and the family of 17-year-old iconic teenager Ahed Tamimi at his office in Ramallah

He was also reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating that popular peaceful resistance is a strong arm that exposes the falsehood and hypocrisy of Israeli occupation.

According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi was scheduled to meet Abbas in Ramallah at the end of this week.

Al-Quds said that Palestinians rallied in protest of the US decision to cut off funding to the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, in the northern and southern districts.

It also reported UNRWA saying that there was an increase in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The dailies highlighted the UN chief’s statements expressing alarm of “one-state reality” between Israel and Palestine.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was reported in al-Quds and al-Ayyam warning the recent developments in the Middle East could create “an irreversible one-state reality” that burry the two-state solution of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

He was also reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating: “There is no Plan B” for the two-state solution.

Al-Quds said that a total of 59 Israeli Jewish settlers and 13 intelligence officers forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

It quoted well-informed sources stating that Israeli police continues to obstruct the implementation of 20 projects in the holy site.

It also reported residents of the Palestinian villages surrounding the Israeli settlement outpost of “Havat Gilad” saying that the Israeli government’s decision to legalize the outpost was designed to displace them from their lands.

According to al-Ayyam, Israeli occupation bulldozers destroyed a water pipeline supplying tens of acres of land in the northern Jordan Valley.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted Health Minister Jawad Awad’s decision to grant the Bedouin community of Jabal al-Baba, east of Jerusalem, free health insurance as a gesture of support for their steadfastness in the face of Israeli plans to displace them.

It added the Foreign Ministry lashed out at US peace envoy Jason Greenblatt for statements he made regarding the Palestinian role in the so-called peace process.

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