RAMALLAH, July 13, 2018 (WAFA) – Deferment of the planned demolition of the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar dominated the front page headlines in local Palestinian dailies on Friday.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said Israel’s top court ordered a pause on the planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmau until August 15, which has been set as a date for a hearing on the demolition.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that attorneys representing the Anti-Wall and Settlements Commission secured the court order to put a pause on the demolition of the community.
The dailies also highlighted the fact that Fatah Revolutionary Council convened at the community, slated for demolition.
Fatah Revolutionary Council was reported in the dailies slamming the planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar as part of the Israeli occupation authorities’ persistent policies of ethnic cleansing and attempts to bury the two-state solution.
It was also reported calling on the Palestinian people to confront Israeli occupation and settler colonialism everywhere and stating that “the acts of Israeli occupation continue with the encouragement of ]US President Donald[ Trump’s administration, which denies international legitimacy.”
According to al-Ayyam, the solidarity tent set up at Khan al-Ahmar was flooded with international activists and Friday noon prayer will be held at the site.
Furthermore, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to head on Friday to Russia to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and attend the World Cup final on Sunday.
Additionally, the dailies said that Israeli occupation authorities have decided to release the bodies of three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.
With regards to the besieged Gaza Strip, the dailies said that an Israeli drone fired missile towards a group of Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip; the group was able to survive the strike.
Al-Quds added that an Israeli drone also targeted a group of Palestinians in the eastern Gaza Strip, without causing any injuries.
According to al-Ayyam, a Palestinian farmer was hit and injured with Israeli gunfire in Beit Hanoun town in the northern besieged enclave.
Furthermore, the dailies reported that an Israeli court decided to free an Israeli settler indicted over the murder of the Palestinian Dawabsheh family in 2015 after setting their home in Duma village on fire.
Nasser Dawabsheh was reported in al-Quds pledging that the family would appeal to international courts for justice.
Yet, al-Quds reported a Palestinian water expert noting that Israel is exploiting water as a means to seize large tracts of Palestinian-owned land and extend control over the most part of Area C, which accounts for 60 percent of the West Bank.
Moreover, al-Quds said that the Irish Senate’s law criminalizing the import and sale of goods and services originating in Israeli settlements in the occupied territories was widely welcomed.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam added that Israeli ‘Defense’ Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for closing the Israeli embassy in Dublin in response to the law.
According to al-Ayyam, thousands of UNRWA employees held a sit-in Gaza city protesting the planned cuts to key UNRWA programs and layoffs.
It added that Israeli forces destroyed water pipelines in Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley and detained seven Palestinian in West Bank raids.
Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee Azzam al-Ahmad was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida pledging to rebuild Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp.
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