RAMALLAH, July 22, 2018 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies focused in their Sunday issue on Israel’s bombing of a site in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in a clear breach of the recent ceasefire agreement.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said altough a calm prevailed in Gaza since early Saturday after reaching a ceasefire following a day of Israeli aerial and land strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes fired two shells at a location east of Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, causing a fire and destroying the site. No one was reportedly hurt.
The three dailies said that the four Palestinians who were killed in the Israeli strikes on Gaza on Friday were laid to rest.
According to the papers, President Mahmoud Abbas praised the steadfastness of the people of Khan al-Ahmar community near Jerusalem, which is facing an imminent threat of demolition and displacement by the Israeli occupation authorities, saying it is the battle of all the Palestinian people in defense of their national project and in defense of Jerusalem and its holy places.
A statement by spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, was reported in the three newspapers. He said that thanks to the steadfastness of the Palestinian people the leadership’s commitment to the national constants, the US-led “deal of the century” has been thwarted, adding that if the deal has succeeded, it would become a regional deal affecting all the peoples and countries of this region.
Abu Rudeineh also said that “the region is now at a crossroads to decide the fate of principle issues that affect the higher interests of its peoples, which some parties may jeopardize by creating a clear break up of nationalist positon.”
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah inaugurated on Saturday a regional street connecting the Bedouin community of Tana, a frequent target of the Israeli home demolition policy, with nearby Beit Furik town, to the east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the Israeli government has approved the building of 20 new housing units in the illegal Israeli settlement of Mitzad, near the city of Bethlehem.
The dailies said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Palestinians and Israelis to avoid "another devastating conflict" after the recent attacks in Gaza on Friday.
They also reported that members of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (APIU) reaffirmed their support for the Palestinian leadership in its battle against Israeli plots.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Quds said that Dutch BDS activist Lydia de Leeuw was denied entry into Israel.
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