RAMALLAH, May 16, 2018 (WAFA) – As if the Israeli army murder of 61 Palestinians at the Gaza border on Monday was not enough, soldiers further killed on Tuesday two more Gazans who were in the vicinity of the border fence, according to the top front page story of the Wednesday issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
The three papers said the Israeli army killed two Palestinians from Bureij refugee camp on Tuesday raising the number the Israeli army killed in two days of what al-Ayyam called “the embassy massacre” to 63.
Thousands of Palestinians protested at the Gaza border with Israel against the US relocation of its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Israel responded with excessive use of firepower leading to the high number of fallen Palestinians and wounded.
Local and world reaction to these developments and the convening of an emergency meeting for the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli army massacre of Palestinians were also highlighted on the front page of the three dailies.
The papers also said Palestinians everywhere marked on Tuesday the 70th anniversary of the Nakba when they were dispossessed and forced to leave their homes and land and become refugees following Israel’s creation in 1948.
They said in another story that President Mahmoud Abbas underwent an operation in his ear at a Ramallah hospital and he left the hospital hours later following the successful surgery.
They also said President Abbas recalled Palestine’s ambassador to Washington, Husam Zomlot, following the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.
Al-Ayyam said Abbas signed papers that would allow filing criminal charges against Israel’s settlement project in the occupied territories to the International Criminal Court.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida gave large space on the bottom of its front page to a report about the 8-month old Gaza infant who suffocated to death from Israeli tear gas inhalation.
Al-Quds said the Greek Orthodox patriarch has introduced what it described as “significant changes” in the structure of the patriarchate.
The papers also said the Mufti has declared that Thursday is the first day of the holy fast month of Ramadan.
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