RAMALLAH, May 19, 2018 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dallies highlighted on the front page of their Saturday issue the meetings of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul where they discussed Israel’s massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the opening of the United States embassy in Jerusalem.

The two meetings condemned both the massacre and the opening of the embassy and called for an independent international probe into the Israeli killings in Gaza.

The dailies also highlighted another Friday of protests at the Gaza borders with Israel in the Great March of Return and said Israeli soldiers shot and injured 59 people during the protests.

Another front page story was the meeting in Ramallah between President Mahmoud Abbas and his Panamanian counterpart Juan Carlos Rodriguez.

The daily also said some 120,000 Muslims attended the firsts Friday in Ramadan prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City.

They said Egypt has decided to keep Rafah crossing with Gaza open for the entire month of Ramadan to facilitate movement of Gazans in and out of the besieged coastal enclave.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israeli police crushed with force a demonstration in Haifa against the Gaza massacre and detained more than one dozen Arab demonstrators.

Al-Ayyam said Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the Gaza protests will not stop until the siege on Gaza is lifted.

Al-Quds quoted Haniyeh saying that Egypt did not pass on to Hamas any Israeli ultimatums.

It also said the African Parliament rejected moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.

It said Palestine’s head of delegation to Washington, Husam Zomlot, who was recalled by Abbas, has submitted a report to the president on US policy in the region.

The papers said more Israel settlement units are going to be built in occupied East Jerusalem.

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