RAMALLAH, July 27, 2018 (WAFA) – The killing of a Palestinian young man by Israeli forces after he carried out a stabbing attack in an illegal Israeli settlement to the south of Ramallah dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

The dailies reported that a Palestinian young man was killed by Israeli forces after he stabbed three Israeli settlers in Adam settlement, south of Ramallah.

The assailant was reportedly identified as Mohammad Tareq Yousef Abu Ayyush, 17, from Kobar village, north of Ramallah.

On the other hand, al-Quds reported that the Israeli military has beefed up its presence along Gaza borders as Palestinian factions affirmed their commitment to the ceasefire agreement.

Al-Ayyam said that ]Palestinian fighters[ launched rockets and mortar shells against Israeli targets, east of the besieged Gaza Strip, and that Palestinian protestors in al-Bureij refugee camp pulled away part of the border fence.

Also with regards to Gaza, al-Ayyam said that deliberations over ceasefire in Gaza have reached an impasse amid rising prospects of flare-up.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported President Mahmoud Abbas extending his condolences for the Druze community over the killing of nearly 250 civilian Syrians in coordinated Islamic State group suicide bombings and shootings in Sweida, a Druze-majority province in southern Syria.

Furthermore, al-Ayyam said that thousands of employees of the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, continued a general strike and sit-in at the main UNRWA headquarters against job cuts.

Al-Quds added in this regard that the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee has formed a sub-committee in charge of following-up on the UNRWA’s financial crisis and communicating with relevant stakeholders.

It said that the PLO Executive Committee would convene on Saturday to discuss the convening the Palestinian Central Council and reconsider the ties with Israel.

Additionally, al-Quds highlighted Secretary-General of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat’s solidarity visit to the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem.

Erekat was reported reiterating that the Palestinian people would continue to uphold “international legitimacy” with regard to the question of Palestine.

He was also reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida warning that the Jewish Nation-State Basic Law followed with en masse ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

He was also reported promising that US President Donald Trump’s Mideast plan, dubbed deal of the century, as well as the Jewish Nation-State Basic Law were doomed to failure.

Moreover, al-Quds republished a report by the French newspaper Le Monde revealing that Mossad operatives planned the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Madbouh from Paris.

It quoted a senior French intelligence official cited in the Le Monde’s report saying: “Paris is the Mossad’s playground.”

It said that chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh discussed the latest developments in Gaza with Egyptian Intelligence chief Abbas Kamel and the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov.

It also reported that Palestine is to take over the leadership of the biggest bloc of developing countries at the UN in 2019.

It also reported Jordan’s Information Ministry stating that Israel must halt tampering and carrying out excavations west of East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

It reported Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop confirming that Australia had no plans to relocate its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

According to al-Ayyam, scores of Israeli settlers forced their way into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and Hebron-district town of Halhul.

It added that Israeli forces detained nine Palestinians as they conducted multiple predawn raids across the West Bank.

It also reported that a number of Palestinians suffocated from tear gas fired by Israeli forces during a raid that triggered clashes in Beit Ummar, northwest of Hebron.

It highlighted a Reuters report indicating that the so-called deal of the century, still under development, will include a major economic component.

Yet, al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Spokesman for Fatah Osama al-Qawasmi waring that Israel has prepared and has started the implementation of a plan to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

K.F.