RAMALLAH, May 31, 2018 (WAFA) – The debate on the situation in Gaza and Kuwait’s proposal of providing international protection for the Palestinian people dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Thursday.

The dailies reported that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is scheduled today to vote on a draft resolution, circulated by Kuwait, on setting up an international protection for the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.

They also reported that Kuwait has blocked a US-drafted UNSC statement condemning what it claimed were attacks from Gaza on Israel.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam quoted Palestinian permanent observer to the UNSC Riyad Mansour stating: “The right to security is not restricted to Israel, but also to all people, including the Palestinian people.”

On the other hand, Israel’s approval of the construction of nearly 2,000 illegal new settler units in the West Bank also hit the front page headlines in the dailies.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israeli occupation authorities have approved the construction of 2070 new settler units in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Al-Quds added that the decision would allow the construction of 322 new settler units in Kfar Adumim settlement, located a kilometer from the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar slated for demolition.

The dailies said that a Palestinian succumbed to his wounds he had sustained by Israeli gunfire during Gaza Great March of Return protests, bringing the total of Palestinians killed in the protests to 124.

The man, identified as Naji Maysara Ghneim, 23, died of his wounds sustained a few days ago near the Great March of Return encampments along Gaza’s eastern border.

The dailies spotlighted the situation in the Gaza Strip, subject to Israeli-imposed 12-year crippling siege, a day after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement was announced.

Al-Quds said that Israel pounded a total of 65 targets for Hamas and Islamic Jihad in addition to civilian structures and farms.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that cautious calm prevailed on the besieged coastal enclave following successful Egyptian efforts to reach ceasefire.

The dailies highlighted UK Minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt’s visit to the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, threatened with demolition, located to the east of Jerusalem.

Al-Quds reported that Burt met with a number of Palestinian families threatened with forcible displacement in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

He was reported warning that the forced transfer of Khan al-Ahmar is illegal.

Moreover, al-Quds said that Israel prevented the construction of an agricultural road on lands belonging to Azzun town, east of Qalqiliya.

According to al-Quds and al-Ayyam, an Israeli settler physically assaulted two Palestinian farmers in Husan village, west of Bethlehem.

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