RAMALLAH, April 17, 2019 (WAFA) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini’s speech stressing that the EU would not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over any territories occupied since June 1967 dominated the front page headlines in Wednesday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

The dailies reported Mogherini stressing that the EU does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over any of the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967, including the Syria’s Golan Heights.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam also reported Mogherini stressed the EU’s commitment to the two-state solution.

Mogherini made her remarks as part of a speech delivered at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Additionally, the dailies said that Israeli forces injured several Palestinians and caused dozens others to suffocate from tear gas during multiple raids across the West Bank.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida elaborated that Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian with live ammunition in Hizma town, east of Jerusalem.

Al-Quds added that two Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire during a raid in al-Mazra‘a al-Gharbiyya village, north of Ramallah.

Moreover, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that an Israeli settler rammed his car into a Palestinian child in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, inflicting wounds in his head and face.

The dailies said that Palestinians lit the torch of freedom to mark the Palestinian Prisoner Day in Hebron.

They also said that Israeli occupation authorities have seized hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land to the south of Nablus city.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam covered Israeli media reports indicating that Israel and Hamas are preparing for a long-term calm agreement.

Furthermore, al-Quds reported Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh affirming that neither the Palestinian leadership would yield to the policy of extortion nor it will accept the persistence of the current situation.

He was also reported addressing the United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov and stressing the need for the creation of an international federation in support of the two-state solution.

It also reported the World Bank calling for easing Israeli restrictions on dual-use goods imported to the occupied Palestinian territories.

Al-Ayyam said that a coalition of more than a dozen US Jewish groups and congressmen sent a letter to US President Donald Trump affirming that the two-state solution is the only formulation  to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Jordan’s King Abdullah II reiterating that his country would not accept to be subject to pressures to change its position on the Palestinian question and Jerusalem.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was reported in al-Ayyam saying that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have suspended their open-ended hunger strike following direct talks between prisoners’ leaders and the UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Hamas has prevented Mohammad Safi from leaving the besieged Gaza Strip for medical treatment.

Safi, 27, from Beit Lahiya town in the northern besieged Gaza Strip has lost his sight as a result of torture in Hamas interrogation centers.

It also pointed out that the UK welcomed the formation of the new Palestinian government and affirmed its commitment to the two-state solution.

K.F.