RAMALLAH, February 11, 2018 (WAFA) – News about the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, as well as news about the Israeli jet fighter shot down by Syrian fire, hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Sunday.

Al-Quds, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that President Abbas received on Saturday in official ceremony Indian Prime Minister Modi at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah, the occupied West Bank, and held official talks.

President Abbas thanked India for its support for the Palestinian cause and said that Palestinians have never rejected negotiations, but have been and are still ready for them, adding that forming a multilateral international mechanism of many countries is the best way to revive negotiations.

News about the Israeli jet fighter which was shot down by Syrian fire was also highlighted.

The three newspapers said that Israel admitted that an F16 fighter jet that was involved in an air raid on Syria was shot down by Syrian artillery. The jet apparently fell in Israel.

Al-Quds said that Israeli forces Saturday arrested a 15-year-old minor outside the Ibrahimi Mosque compound in the Old City neighborhood in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, for allegedly having a knife on his possession.

The dailies also said that Arab parliamentarians called on Saturday for severing ties with any country that recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or transfers its embassy to the occupied city.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Chief of Israeli Police Roni Alsheikh is considering publishing police’s recommendations in corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Al-Quds said Israeli authorities embarked on the construction of a bypass road linking the illegal settlements of Ramat Shlomo and Atarot in occupied Jerusalem.

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