RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 24, 2019 (WAFA) – The Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip last night that left few people injured and remarks by President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting with Harvard University students at his headquarters in Ramallah were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said around a dozen people were injured in the Israeli air strikes on Gaza.

Al-Ayyam said nine people were injured, two of them in critical condition (one died this morning of his wounds) in the Israeli attacks yesterday.

Al-Quds also said Israeli army raids in the West Bank led to the detention of a number of Palestinians.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida, which also reported on the Israeli attacks on Gaza, however, dedicated the top part of its front page to the remarks by President Abbas to the Harvard University students, focusing mainly on Abbas saying that “We are a state under occupation but we have dignity and looking for international justice.”

These remarks were highlighted in the other two dailies with al-Quds reiterating the same headline as al-Hayat al-Jadida while al-Ayyam highlighting the president saying that difficult times are expected in the coming months.

Al-Ayyam said in another story, quoting the Islamic Jihad, that the Egyptian security delegation is expected back in Gaza in the near future to discuss the Israeli responses.

It said that the Israeli army has intensified its presence on the borders with Gaza in an effort to create new facts.

It also said 14 Jordanian parliamentarians have called on their government to take steps to confront Israeli intrusions into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, which is under Jordanian custody.

The three papers also focused on the decision by US President Donald Trump to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and its implications.

They said several hundred Syrian Golanis demonstrated against Trump’s decision.

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