RAMALLAH, July 14, 2018 (WAFA) – A Palestinian who was killed in the Friday March of Return protests on the Gaza border with Israel and over 200 injured was the highlight of the main front page story in the Saturday issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
In addition to the Gaza protests, the papers reported as well on the Friday prayer held at Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem for the second week in a row in solidarity with its Palestinian residents who are fighting an Israeli plan to displace them in order to build a settlement on their land.
Al-Ayyam said the Israeli military prosecutor asked the High Court to speed up its decision on the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar after the court had suspended military action against the civilian community until the middle of August.
It said European Union (EU) diplomats visited Khan al-Ahmar and expressed strong opposition to the demolition of the community or the uprooting of its residents.
Al-Quds said Israel has rebuked the EU for what it claimed was meddling in its internal affairs, particularly in the ongoing discussions of racist Israeli laws.
The papers also said Israeli settlers torched two cars in the Palestinian village of Urif, in the northern West Bank.
The papers said Israel released on Friday corpses of three Palestinians its forces have killed months ago and which it has been holding in morgues since then as a punishment to the families. The corpses were returned to their families and will be laid to rest on Saturday each in its hometown.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Quds said the Palestinian security forces were able to locate the missing child from the Arab village of Qalanswa, inside Israel, who was returned safely to his family after three days of being missing. The seven-year-old child, who was kidnapped over financial disputes between his family and other people, was kept at a refugee camp in Ramallah before he was located by the Palestinian police and returned safely to his family.
Al-Quds said President Mahmoud Abbas is going to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday after Abbas has arrived in the Russian capital to attend the World Cup final game on Sunday.
It also said that a Palestinian whom Israel had expelled from the West Bank to Gaza 17 years ago was finally reunited with his mother in Turkey for the first time since his expulsion.
The paper also said Hamas and Islamic Jihad delegations ended talks in Cairo and returned to the Gaza Strip.
Al-Quds also said in a report by its Washington correspondent that the pro-Israel lobby in the United States has intensified efforts to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Al-Ayyam said residents of the Palestinian village of Bidya in the north of the West Bank won an Israeli court order that would give them back 226 dunums of their land seized by Israel for Jewish settlement purposes.
The papers reported on the protests in the United Kingdom against the visit of US President Donald Trump. They also reported on the situation in Iraq and Syria.
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