RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 26, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli army killing of two Palestinians on Friday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip was the focus of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies on Saturday.

They said in stories that occupied the top half of the front page that the army killed a teenager in the West Bank town of Silwad, north of Ramallah, without any reason, and a second one was shot dead during the weekly protests on the Gaza border with Israel.

The army, and after holding the body of the Silwad teenager for several hours, returned it to its family for burial later Saturday in town.

The army had also returned the body of an elderly man from the Jenin area in the north of the West Bank to its family for burial after holding it for several months, said the papers.

Dozens were also injured in the Gaza border protests and also in the weekly anti-occupation, anti-settlements protests in several West Bank locations but mainly in Kufr Qaddoum and al-Mughayyer villages in the north of the West Bank.

The papers also printed pictures of the protests in both parts of the country.

They also said Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian civilians and their homes in several areas of the West Bank.

Al-Ayyam quoted Saeb Erekat, member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, saying that the international community should intervene to stop whom he described as Israeli war criminals.

It said Israeli police in Jerusalem attacked a protest in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem against displacement of the neighborhood’s Palestinian families and turning their homes over to Jewish settlers.

It said Palestinians welcomed and Israelis condemned the vote in first reading in the Irish parliament in favor of a bill calling to boycott Israeli settlement products.

Al-Quds highlighted the outcome of the visit by the Qatari envoy to Gaza, focusing mainly on the decision to shift the Qatari aid from salaries of employees to projects in the besieged Gaza Strip, as well as reactions to this decision.

It said 60,000 Muslim worshippers attended the weekly Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City. It said the sermon focused on support for Jerusalem and the Mosque in facing Israeli and Jewish attempts to turn the city and its holy places into all Jewish areas.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said President Mahmoud Abbas called the family of a prisoner held in Israeli jails suffering from cancer and gave directions to work toward getting him released.

It said Palestine’s ambassador to Greece gave the deputy speaker of the Greek parliament a Palestinian passport at the instructions of President Abbas.

It said Fatah has condemned interference by some countries in the internal affairs of Venezuela.

The three papers also reported on their front page of the developments in the United States with the decision to temporarily end the government shutdown and the developments in Venezuela following the coup by the opposition leader and support of several western countries for the coup.

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