RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 25, 2019 (WAFA) – The Israeli army blowing up yesterday the family home of Omar Abu Laila in the village of al-Zawiyeh in the north of the West Bank as a collective punishment for his entire family was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies today.
Abu Laila was shot dead by the army last month days after he allegedly shot and killed an Israeli soldier and settler not far from his village. The three papers also printed picture of the house being blown up and the aftermath.
Confrontations elsewhere in the West Bank, mainly in Nablus where Palestinians clashed with Israeli settlers and soldiers who broke into their city to hold rituals at Joseph’s Tomb, were also highlighted on the front page.
Meetings of Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh with foreign and local delegates and his remarks at the South African embassy in Ramallah during celebration of Freedom Day were also highlighted on the front page of the dailies. In those remarks, the papers quoted Shtayyeh calling for the establishment of an international coalition to preserve the two-state solution.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the Finance Ministry announced that it may be able to borrow money from banks to pay salaries and other things until July. It said, quoting Deputy Finance Minister Farid Ghannam, the ministry has borrowed $54 million from the banks since the start of the crisis over Israel’s withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues in February.
Al-Quds said the Palestinian factions called on Hamas to end the division instead of forming a body with a goal to face off the American deal of the century. Various Palestinian political leaders denounced this Hamas move for acting alone on this critical issue, stressing that this kind of work should be done collectively and spearheaded by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The paper said in another news report that 542 Israeli fanatics forced their way into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during this week while celebrating the Jewish Passover holiday prompting the Muslim Waqf department to consider the acts of the fanatics backed by the Israeli police and government to be a very serious matter.
It said a UN organization published a report exposing the dismal situation of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied section of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
In addition to the above stories, al-Ayyam also quoted US envoy Jason Greenblatt saying the deal of the century, which he wrote, does not talk about a confederacy with Jordan.
The three papers also included other local, Israeli and international news on their front page.
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