RAMALLAH, Friday, February 15, 2019 (WAFA) – The vandalism of Palestinian property by Israeli settlers to the east of the West Bank city of Salfit dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies.
The dailies reported that Israeli settlers punctured the tires of Palestinian vehicles and sprayed racist anti-Palestinian slogans on walls and vehicles in Iskaka village, east of the northern West Bank city of Salfit.
Settlers punctured the tires of some twenty vehicles and sprayed graffiti on walls of houses and vehicles and the walls of the village’s mosque.
Other than the settlers’ attack in the Salfit-district village of Iskaka, al-Ayyam said that settlers also attacked Palestinians in two other villages in Nablus district.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Palestinian fended off settlers’ attacks in Urif and Asira al-Qiblia villages, southwest of Nablus.
In Asira al-Qiblia, settlers protected by a military escort attacked Palestinian houses on the outskirts of the village with stones.
Additionally, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that dozens of Palestinian students suffocated from tear gas fired by Israeli forces near Tareq Bin Ziad School in the southern part of Hebron city.
On the other hand, al-Quds and al-Ayyam highlighted the remarks of US President Donald Trump’s advisor Jared Kushner during the Warsaw Conference on Trump’s Middle East plan.
They reported Kushner stating that Trump’s plan, dubbed deal of the century, would be unveiled following the Israeli elections, scheduled on April 9, and claiming that it requires the Palestinian and Israeli sides to make concessions.
Highlighting the drift between the U.S. and European countries over Iran’s nuclear deal, al-Ayyam said that the Europeans resist U.S. pressures to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran.
Al-Quds reported President Mahmoud Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh stressing that there would be no peace, security and stability in the Middle East without a solution to the Palestinian question which is based on the UN resolutions and leads to the establishment of the Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as a capital.
According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians in multiple overnight raids across the West Bank.
Moreover, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Premier Rami Hamdallah emphasizing that Jerusalem is not for sale or bargaining.
Hamdallah made his statement as part of a speech delivered at the inauguration ceremony of a maternal center in Bir Nabala town, northeast of Jerusalem.
They also reported that President Abbas issued a decree to reconfigure the Higher Presidential Committee of Church Affairs.
Yet, al-Quds reported Jamal Amro, a Jerusalemite activist, warning against Israeli wild ambitions to seize Bab al-Rahma, a gate which leads to the eastern part of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
It said that Israel has advanced a plan to construct a new settlement on land belonging to the Palestinian residents of the west Bank district of Salfit and Qalqilia.
According to al-Ayyam, Israeli forces opened fire towards Palestinians who participated in the night borderline protests, east of Rafah, injuring four.
It said that Israeli military drills, which displaced 50 Palestinian families on last Wednesday, has caused extensive damage to farmlands in the Jordan Valley.
It also reported that Israeli occupation authorities refuses to let representatives of the UN Security Council visit the occupied West Bank.
Moreover, member of Fatah Central Committee Azzam al-Ahmad was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stressing that Fatah will not sit with any side that does not recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
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