RAMALLAH, March 25, 2018 (WAFA) – News about Israeli officials’ slamming of the UN Human Rights Council after it adopted four resolutions for Palestine hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Sunday.
Al-Quds, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council after it adopted four resolutions for Palestine in its 37th session, concluded in Geneva on Friday.
The papers said that Israeli “Defense” Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called Israel to withdraw from the Council.
According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, Palestinian government praised the UN adopting of the four resolutions.
Al-Quds said Israeli forces raided the village of Barta’a, southwest to the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, and detained a Palestinian youth near the town of Dora, near the city of Hebron.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Palestinians launched an online support campaign for President Mahmoud Abbas titled “Fawadnak” (Arabic for We Authorized You).
It said that the more than one million people interacted with the campaign.
Salim Zanoun, head of the Palestinian National Council, briefed Abbas on the preparations of the upcoming PLO National Council session during a meeting that took place in Amman, Jordan, al-Hayat al-Jadida said.
Al-Ayyam said that Israeli authorities are considering the possibility of building 600 new housing units in Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem.
The dailies said Palestinian singer Reem Banna died on Saturday at 51 of cancer and was laid to rest in her hometown city of Nazareth in northern Palestine.
Al-Ayyam said Hamas movement, the de facto authority in Gaza, said that in the upcoming days it will reveal the identity of those involved in plotting the bombing attack on Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s envoy in Gaza on March 13.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the National and Islamic Forces, a coalition of major Palestinian factions, called for mass protests against the Israeli occupation on March 30 to commemorate the Land Day, ahead of the preparations for the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian exodus, the Nakba.
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