RAMALLAH, Friday, January 25, 2019 (WAFA) – The end of tensions which lasted for three days inside the Israeli prison of Ofer dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies.
The dailies reported that representatives of Palestinian prisoners and the Israeli administration of Ofer prison agree to cancel the punitive measures against prisoners.
Additionally, the dailies reported that Israeli prosecutors charged an Israeli teen settler with manslaughter over the killing of Aisha al-Rabi.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida described the trial of the settler teens who killed al-Rabi as a “new racist farce”.
Al-Rabi, a 47-year-old Palestinian mother of seven children, from Bidya village near Salfit, was killed and her husband injured after Israeli settlers threw rocks at their vehicle near Zaatara checkpoint in the northern West Bank on October 13, 2018.
Moreover, al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that Hamas rejects the third installment of the Qatari grant to Gaza due to Israeli conditions.
According to al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli occupation authorities will release the body of Hamdan al-Arda today ]after withholding it for 40 days[.
Al-Arda, a 60-year-old businessman, was killed by Israeli forces while driving his vehicle during a military raid in the industrial zone in the northern section of the West Bank city of Al-Bireh on December 13, 2018.
Moreover, the dailies reported that undercover Israeli forces shot and seriously wounded a Palestinian child in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shufat. Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the child was detained afterwards.
Al-Quds added that undercover Israeli forces detained three other Palestinians from the same neighborhood.
Besides, al-Ayyam said that Israeli forces detained 18 Palestinians in multiple overnight West Bank raids. According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, the detainees totaled 19.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported that the Israeli military ordered a halt on the construction of a main access road in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
According to al-Ayyam, scores of Palestinians suffocated from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers who raided Sebastia village, northwest of Nablus city.
Highlighting the situation in al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the dailies said the Israeli police commander and veteran military officers forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint site.
Yet, al-Quds said a Palestinian family highlighted a battle between Palestinians and Israeli Jewish settlers attempting to purchase a small Palestinian house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
It said a Palestinian insists to continue to live in their house despite the house price soared from ILS 900,000 to ILS 12 million.
The report originally was published by Haaretz under the title East Jerusalem house price soars over $3m amid Palestinian-settler land feud.
Al-Quds said that an Israeli court rejected a petition submitted by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against paying compensation to collaborator prisoners.
It said that Ireland’s lower parliament voted to advance a bill calling for boycotting Israeli settlement products.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Palestinians staged a rally in front of the Venezuelan Embassy in Ramallah in solidarity with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported Palestinian ambassador to Venezuela Linda Suboh saying that all Palestinians in the South American country are well.
Similarly, al-Ayyam reported Ramallah Mayor Mousa Hadid and al-Bireh Mayor Azzam Qaran confirming that they would access justice and stating their demand of a halt on stripping local authorities of their powers.
This came after Ramallah District Magistrate Court sentenced both Hadid and Qaran to three months in prison for the alleged attempt of collecting taxes in an illegal manner.
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