RAMALLAH, Saturday, November 17, 2018 (WAFA) – The main front page story in the Saturday edition of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted the weekly March of Return protests along the Gaza border with Israel. At least 40 Palestinians were injured in the Israeli army crackdown on the protesters, some of them hit by live bullets and seriously injured.
Al-Ayyam said, quoting an informed source, that the Egyptian security official who was in Gaza to oversee the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian factions in Gaza and Israeli, was himself at the border event to inspect the situation.
The paper quoted Hamas leader in Gaza, Yehya Sinwar, telling the protesters that Hamas is determined to break the 12-year-old siege on Gaza and if the occupiers increase their strikes on Gaza, Hamas will increase its rockets.
Al-Quds also quoted Sinwar criticizing those who said that Hamas has sold the protests for dollars and diesel.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted an Egyptian official saying that the steadfastness of the Palestinian people will foil any attempt aimed at ending the Palestinian cause.
The paper also quoted Foreign Minister Riyad Malki saying that all Palestinian women and their children held in Thailand for overstaying their visas were released from detention.
It said a Palestinian is a candidate to head a prestigious international educational campaign.
The paper also said the Israeli military has indicted the mother and brother of Ashraf Naalweh, from the West Bank city of Tulkarm who is accused to killing two Israeli settlers last month and remains at large.
It also report on the visit of the International Federation of Journalists to Palestine and their planned participation in a march at Qalandia checkpoint, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, on Saturday and holding a conference in Ramallah on Sunday.
Al-Quds said on this subject that Israel is obstructing holding the conference.
It also quoted Jerusalem minister in the Palestinian Authority Adnan Husseini saying that the election of a new mayor for West Jerusalem is an internal Israeli matter.
The paper quoted as well Sheikh Ikrima Sabri saying during the Friday sermon at Al-Aqsa Mosque that Jerusalem property should be made waqf (trust) in order to protect it from being sold.
Al-Ayyam reported as well on the weekly anti-settlements, anti-wall protests in the West Bank and the Israeli army crackdown.
It said that for the first time, the United States votes against a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Israel’s annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
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