RAMALLAH, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Central Council’s decision to suspend recognition of Israel dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Tuesday.

Al-Quds reported that the Palestinian Central Council (PCC) has decided to suspend its recognition of Israel, halt security coordination and suspend all economic agreements reached with Israel.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported in this regard that PCC has decided to halt all of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian Authority’s (PA) commitments to the accords signed with Israel, the occupying power.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida added that PLC authorized President Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO Executive Committee to follow-up on implementation of the decisions.

Elaborating on this issue, al-Hayat al-Jadida said that PLC lauded Abbas and the PLO Executive Committee’s position rejecting US President Donald Trump’s Mideast plan, dubbed deal of the century.

It also reported the PLC stating the US has became part of the problem and not part of the solution.

It also reported the PLC hitting out at Hamas, which controls the besieged Gaza Strip, holding it fully responsible for failing to live up to its commitments contained in the reconciliation agreements signed in October of the last year.

Additionally, the dailies reported that a Palestinian was shot and killed while dozens others suffered tear gas inhalation as Israeli forces quelled a protests activity at Gaza’s northern sea shores. According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, a total of 80 protestors were injured by Israeli forces.

The fatality was reportedly identified as Muhammad Abdul-Hai Abu Obada, 27, from Shati refugee camp in the northern coastal enclave.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted the funeral procession of the three Palestinian children killed in an Israeli airstrike to the east of Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip.

Yet, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian house under construction in Anata, northeast of Jerusalem.

Al-Quds said that Israeli occupation authorities seized hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land belonging to Budrus town, northwest of Ramallah.

Moreover, the dailies said that Israeli Jewish settlers broke into and seized two uninhabited Palestinian houses in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Spotlighting the situation in East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, al-Quds said that the so-called Temple Mount groups called their followers for en-masse intrusions into the holy site.

According to al-Quds and al-Ayyam, settlers commenced the construction of an outpost at the site of an evacuated military base in the northern Jordan Valley.

Al-Quds added that settlers blocked a road to Karm Abu Salem/Kerem Shalom crossing, Gaza’s commercial crossing with Israel, in an attempt to prevent goods from entering the besieged Gaza Strip.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that thousands of Palestinian employees took to the streets in a protest against a social security law proposed by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.

According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli forces leveled 33 dunums of Palestinian land and uprooted 550 olive and almond trees in the southern West Bank town of Beit Ula, northwest of Hebron.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh’s participation in the Third EU Arab World Summit in Athens.

He was reported stating that the Palestinian leadership was compelled to call for a balanced and just international path to lead the peace process as a result of the US administration’s unjust unilateral steps.

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