RAMALLAH, April 26, 2018 (WAFA) – The death of a Palestinian journalist nearly two weeks after being shot by Israeli forces while covering the Great March of Return protests in the besieged Gaza Strip dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

The dailies reported that Ahmad Abu Hussein, 24, succumbed to wounds he sustained while covering the Great March of Return in Gaza.

Abu Hussein was reportedly shot in the abdomen on April 13 while standing several hundred meters away from the border fence.

He was transferred to a Ramallah-based hospital for treatment two days later, only to be later admitted to Tel Hashomer hospital in Israel on April 19 where he died of his wounds.

Israeli forces and settlers’ attacks against Palestinians and their property across the West Bank and Gaza also hit the front page headlines in the dailies.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that Israeli military bulldozers uprooted hundreds of olive trees and leveled land in Bardala village, northeast of Tubas city, in the Jordan Valley.

The dailies added that Israeli Jewish settlers slashed the tires of Palestinian-registered vehicles and scrawled anti-Palestinian racist graffiti in Jaloud village, south of Nablus city.

They also reported that members of the so-called “Price Tag” Israeli terrorist organization set fire to two Palestinian-owned vehicles in Iksal village, southeast of the northern Israeli Arab city of Nazareth.

Al-Quds added in this regard that Israeli security forces did not prevent the crime although they had prior knowledge of it.

It also reported that Israeli forces detained a number of Palestinians during multiple overnight raids across the West Bank and triggered clashes in the vicinity of al-Quds University campus in Abu Dis town, southwest of Jerusalem.

It also reported that Israeli police harassed Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Shufat and al-Issawiya.

It also said that a total of 117 Israeli fanatics forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as a settler groups, known as “Temple Mount” organization, has called for masse intrusions into the Muslim holy site on Sunday.

According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of new settler units on lands belonging to al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that the US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Arab Bank, dismissing the lawsuits filed by some 6,000 Israeli plaintiffs claiming that the bank has links to attacks carried out in Israel.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida added in this regard that the Arab Bank has “scored another victory” at the US Supreme Court.

Al-Quds reported that Britain has sold arms to Israel since the 2014 Gaza onslaught, reportedly worth of $445 million, including UK-made sniper rifle components used by Israeli forces to target Palestinians during the Great March of Return Protests along Gaza border.

The dailies also reported that an Israeli border police officer who murdered Nadim Nuwara, a 16-year-old Palestinian youth, on Nakba Day four years ago was sentenced to only nine months in prison.

Al-Quds described the sentence as a “kangaroo court”, while al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the Nuwara family describing it as a “farce”.

The dailies said that a funeral procession was held for Fadi al-Batsh, a Palestinian scientist who was apparently assassinated by Israeli agents, in Malaysia before transferring his body to Gaza.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam spotlighted a Human Rights Watch report indicating that the Israeli military demolition of Palestinian schools in the West Bank “could amount to war crimes.”

Citing the report, al-Quds added that since Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu took office in March 2009, the Israeli military has demolished 5,351 structures in the West Bank.

Highlighting the stifling financial crisis gripping the United Nations responsible for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, the dailies reported that the UNRWA may stop providing services in all of its operating areas starting September.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the Czech Foreign Minister affirming the Czech Republic’s respect to the common policy of the European Union (UN), which considers Jerusalem as the future capital of both the state of Israel and the future state of Palestine.

This announcement was made following the Czech Republic’s decision to open an honorary consulate in West Jerusalem.

According to al-Quds, George Washington University student senate has voted to divest from Israel, standing on the side Palestinians.

Al-Ayyam reported the organizers of the Great March of Return in Gaza have completed preparations for the upcoming Friday protests, dubbed the Rebellious Youth Friday, in which 250,000 Gazans are expected to take part.

According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Pope Francis has invited leaders of all Christian denominations in the Middle East to Italy for a peace summit in July.

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