RAMALLAH, August 11, 2018 (WAFA) – The Israeli army murder of two Palestinians - a medic and a middle-aged man - during the Friday border protests in Gaza was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies on Saturday. (A third died of his wounds early Saturday.)
Al-Ayyam said the Israeli army deployed tanks to quell the protests that left in addition to the three killed, over 3000 injured.
The three papers printed pictures of the protests, including those of medics injured by Israeli gunfire while helping to save life of others.
The papers also reported on the weekly Friday anti-occupation protests in the West Bank and said the army quelled the protests with force causing injuries in towns such as Kufr Qaddoum and Tuquo.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian civilian home in Tel Rumeida area of Hebron and that the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem has decided to seize dozens of dunums in Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem for Jewish settlement purposes.
Al-Quds said in a report by its Washington correspondent that the United States held Hamas responsible for how things will turn out in the Gaza Strip as an outcome of its conflict with Israel.
It said US envoy Jason Greenblatt continued to incite against the Palestinian people and leadership and that Fatah has condemned this incitement.
It also said the Arab League troika discussed with the UN Secretary General the crisis facing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Al-Ayyam said the Egyptians and UN Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov have succeeded once again in reaching a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian factions in Gaza and bring calm to the Gaza Strip.
It said the Palestinian Authority formed a committee to look into the incident at Izzariyeh, east of Jerusalem, that left one person shot dead by Palestinian security forces.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Palestine came second in an international contest for cellular phone applications.
It also said the Arab Follow-Up Committee in Israel is organizing a major protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the racist Jewish Nation-State law.
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