RAMALLAH, July 8, 2018 (WAFA) – Al-Ayyam daily focused in its Sunday issue on the funeral of Mohammad Jamal Abu Halima, 22, who was killed by Israeli forces during the Gaza border protests late Friday.

It said Abu Halima was laid to rest in his hometown of Gaza on Saturday.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the National Consensus Government thanked Swedish pro-Palestine activist Benjamin Ladraa, who was banned entry to Palestine by Israeli authorities on Friday while coming on foot from Sweden to raise awareness on the issue of Palestine.

Al-Quds said Israeli forces confiscated water pipes in the village of Bardala in the Jordan Valley region, occupied West Bank.

Al-Ayyam and al-Quds said Islamic Waqf guards in Jerusalem foiled “acts of sabotage” by Israeli police and settlers in Bab al-Rahma cemetery outside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Quds said Minister of Education Sabri Saidam announced that the school year in the village of Khan al-Ahmar near Jerusalem, which is facing an imminent threat of demolition by Israeli authorities, will start exceptionally as of mid-July.

Al-Ayyam said Israeli settlers cut down hundreds of fruitful vineyards belonging to Palestinians in the town of al-Khader, in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, late Saturday evening.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said thousands of people demonstrated in Brussels to express their anger towards the policies of US President Donald Trump.

Al-Ayyam quoted Pope Francis of the Vatican as saying that segregation walls and the occupation are major obstacles to peacemaking in the Middle East.

Al-Ayyam said the Irish parliament is going to approve a draft law to label products manufactured in illegal Israeli settlements.

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