RAMALLAH, Wednesday, March 27, 2019 (WAFA) – The flare-up of cross-border violence between Israel and the besieged Gaza Strip dominated the front page headlines in Wednesday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
The dailies reported that Israeli warplanes carried out fresh airstrikes on the besieged coastal enclave of Gaza.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam added in this regard that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered more troops and tanks to be amassed at the Gaza frontier.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Palestinian Public Works Minister Mufeed al-Hasayneh stating that 30 houses were completely destroyed and 500 others were damaged as a result of the latest Israeli aggression against Gaza.
Also with regards to Gaza, al-Quds said that a Palestinian was injured from Israeli gunfire, east of Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp.
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov was reported in al-Ayyam expressing concerns that violence in Gaza may lead to devastating consequences.
Following the Israeli wardens’ assault against Palestinian prisoners that left dozens injuried in several prisons, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Palestinians demonstrated in solidarity with prisoners in various West Bank districts.
Al-Ayyam added in this regard that Israeli occupation authorities imposed a series of sanctions on 170 Palestinian prisoners languishing in prisons.
Moreover, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Israeli forces delivered a demolition order to the family of Omar Abu Laila in al-Zawiya village, west of Salfit.
Abu Laila, 19, allegedly killed two Israelis, including a soldier, and seriously injured another outside the illegal settlement of Ariel last week. He was killed by Israeli gunfire on last Tuesday night when dozens of soldiers surrounded the house in which he barricaded himself in Obwin village, north of Ramallah city.
The dailies added that Israeli troops shot and injured two Palestinians at the entrance of al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah.
According to al-Ayyam, Israeli settlers attempted to break in two mixed elementary schools in Tuqu town, southeast of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Moreover, al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Palestine’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour calling on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to verify the condition on the ground in Palestine in order to identify the party responsible for violence and incitement.
Additionally, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted a report from the Israeli newspaper of Maariv claiming that Netanyahu maintains Hamas in Gaza because he considers the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank as the strategic and real enemy of Israel.
Al-Quds reported Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Adnan Husseini slamming the relocation of embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as an act of theft and flagrant attack against the Palestinian people.
Yet, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Osama Najjar announcing that the ministry would stop medical transfers to Israeli hospitals.
Al-Ayyam said that the Palestinian Telecommunications Company (Paltel Group) has approved a decision to distribute cash dividends of 53 Jordanian Dinar to shareholders in 2018.
Secretary General of the PLO’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating that it is not the time for Hamas to end the Palestinian division.
Regionally, the dailies reported that Jordan’s parliament called for terminating the agreement to import gas from Israel.
Al-Quds said that US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights embarrasses the Arab countries and benefits Iran, and described the recognition as “another nail in the coffin” of the US Mideast plan, dubbed the deal of the century.
The dailies added that the European members of the UNSC affirmed that they do not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the territories it has occupied since June 1967, including the Golan Heights.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Jordan’s monarch Abdullah II sets out on an international tour that will bring him to Morocco, Italy, France and Tunisia to discuss the Palestinian question and Jerusalem.
Abdullah II was reported in al-Quds and al-Ayyam affirming that “the future of Jerusalem and Palestine is a red line for Jordan” and rejecting any attempts for creating an alternative homeland and resettlement of Palestinians in Jordan.
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