RAMALLAH, June 5, 2018 (WAFA) – The killing of a Palestinian young man by Israeli forces in the southern besieged Gaza Strip dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Tuesday.
The dailies said that Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man near Khuza‘a town to the east of Khan Younes.
The Israeli military reportedly opened fire at a group of Palestinians who approached the border fence for purportedly attempting to infiltrate the border, critically injuring one of them before detaining him. The man was pronounced dead afterwards.
Al-Ayyam added that Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man during nighttime protests at Gaza’s eastern border to the east of Khuza‘a town.
Al-Quds said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that Israeli occupation authorities were exerting efforts to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Netanyahu reportedly made these allegations following a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
Al-Ayyam reported that Israeli military continued to take preparations to step up its retaliation to the flammable kites flown by Gaza protestors.
Furthermore, al-Quds reported that Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home in Hebron city and a school in Bethlehem district.
Al-Ayyam explained that settlers opened fire in the vicinity of an elementary school in Jub al-Dhib, a small village to the east of Bethlehem.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida added in this regard that settlers broke into a Palestinian home in Hebron’s Old City and raised Israeli flags atop it.
Moreover, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the Palestinian government warning against Israel’s plan to deduct funds from the tax revenues collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in order to compensate Israeli farmers in Gaza periphery whose fields were burnt by kites flown by Gaza protestors.
Al-Quds said that the European Union (EU) contributed €35 million to the PA’s payment of May salaries and pensions.
The dailies said that President Mahmoud Abbas received a phone call from Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
Additionally, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called on Israel to reconsider plans to demolish the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem, and to construct thousands of new settler units in the West Bank.
According to the dailies, Palestinian Education Minister Sabri Saidam was overnight stopped by Israeli intelligence officers in Jerusalem.
Al-Quds added that the presidium of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, banned the Joint List members of Knesset from submitting a bill to define Israel as a state for all its citizens.
It added US Democratic legislators were furious after US ambassador to Israel David Friedman accused them of not supporting Israel.
Regionally, the dailies spotlighted the resignation of Jordan’s Prime Minister Hani Mulki after few days of mass protests in Amman and other cities over austerity measures, most notably the draft income tax law.
They said that Jordan’s King Abdullah II accepted Mulki’s resignation and appointed Omar Razzaz, a member of the Jordanian cabinet, to form a new government.
According to al-Ayyam, the Higher National Committee for the Great March of Return will organize a mass rally in Gaza to mark 51 years since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, after consulting with Abbas, decided to dissolve the Higher Security Committee, created more than a decade ago to stop armed chaos and the proliferation of irregular armed groups.
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