RAMALLAH, May 24, 2018 (WAFA) – The death of a 15-year-old Palestinian from Ein Sinia village near Ramallah eight days after he was shot and critically injured by Israeli soldiers was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Odai Abu Khalil died at a Nablus hospital where he was getting treatment when he succumbed to his wounds he sustained during clashes with soldiers north of Ramallah.

In other front page stories, the dailies reported on Palestinian reaction to the picture of the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, receiving with a smile a picture of Jerusalem with its Dome of Rock replaced by a Jewish temple.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Washington claims its ambassador to Israel was deceived when he was handed the picture of Jerusalem without the Dome of the Rock.

It quoted presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh saying that any American initiative that does not include Jerusalem is doomed to failure.

It said the French prime minister has cancelled a visit to Israel as European parliamentarians called for tough stand against Israel for killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Al-Quds said in two reports from its Washington correspondent that the US was not happy with the Palestinian Authority’s submission of referral to the International Criminal Court on Israeli crimes against the occupied Palestinian people describing this move as negative, and the second report said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Congress to decide on the fate of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington.

The papers said the Arab League cancelled an agreement with Guatemala in protest against moving its embassy to Jerusalem.

They said Palestine acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention and it is on its way to accede to two other international organizations – UNIDO and UNCTAD.

Al-Quds quoted former Hamas leader Khaled Meshal saying that US and Israeli interventions and the lack of maturity of partnership have caused failure of the reconciliation.

It also said, quoting a lawyer, that new Israeli military orders will make building in Area C of the West Bank very difficult.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said President Mahmoud Abbas received calls from world leaders to check on his health.

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