RAMALLAH, March 12, 2018 (WAFA) – The planned eviction of a Palestinian family from their residential building in East Jerusalem dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Monday.
The dailies reported that Israeli occupation authorities handed an order to a Palestinian family, ordering them to evict their residential building, located in East Jerusalem’s neighborhood of Silwan, for the benefit of settlement organizations.
On the other hand, al-Quds opted to highlight movement restrictions on Nablus and Jerusalem-district town of Hizma in its main front page news item.
It reported that Israeli forces tightened movement restrictions on the northern West Bank city of Nablus and cordoned off Hizma town, east of East Jerusalem.
Highlighting settlers’ attacks in its main item, al-Ayyam reported Israeli occupation forces and settlers stepped up their attacks against the Palestinian people and their property.
It explained that Israeli forces conducted several raids that triggered clashes across the West Bank and detained a number of Palestinians.
Among these attacks, settlers reportedly assaulted a number of Palestinian children in Silwan, triggering clashes with Palestinians. Besides, Israeli troops seized machines used to construct a new agricultural road in Qabalan town, south of Nablus.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israeli settlers chopped down 15 olive trees in Madama village, south of Nablus.
The dailies added that Palestinians attended the funeral procession of Amir Shahada, 23, from the Nablus-district village of Urif.
Shahada was shot dead by Israeli forces following apparent clashes with Israeli settlers near Nablus city on Saturday.
According to al-Quds and al-Ayyam, President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet King of Jordan Abdullah II in Amman today.
Abbas was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida commending the positions of Arab states in support of Palestine. He was also reported in al-Quds reiterating his rejection of criticizing Arab leaders.
Al-Quds said that the High Follow-up Committee for Palestinian citizens of Israel decided to hold central activities to mark the 42nd anniversary of the Land Day across Palestinian towns in Israel.
Moreover, the dailies spotlighted statements on the ongoing financial crisis gripping the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
Al-Quds reported in this regard Head of the UNRWA Employees Union in Gaza Amir al-Mishal warning of a very imminent humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza Mthias Shamali was reported in al-Ayyam stating that 77 percent of Palestinian refugees in the besieged strip are poor and warning that the basic services provided by UNRWA would face a risk in May 2018.
Al-Ayyam reported Secretary-General of the National Work Committee in Gaza Mahmoud al-Ziq questioning the real motives behind a donors conference over Gaza in the US.
He reportedly stated that the conferences purportedly designed to salvage Gaza was an attempt to enforce US President Donald Trump’s “ill-famed” Deal of the Century.
Furthermore, member of Fatah Central Committee Azzam al-Ahmad was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida denying any progress was achieved in implementing the reconciliation agreement.
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