RAMALLAH, Friday, May 03, 2019 (WAFA) – Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudenieh’s remarks on the so-called deal of the century, which is much touted by US President Donald Trump as a solution to the Question of Palestine, dominated the front page headlines in Friday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Abu Rudenieh was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reiterating the Palestinian leadership’s rejection of “regional suspicious projects that impinge on the security and sovereignty of some neighboring countries.”

He was also reported calling on Israel to release the full amount of the Palestinian tax revenues and stressing that the Palestinian Authority will only accept a full repayment of the revenues.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported him stating: “We will never allow anyone to speak in the name of the Palestinian people”.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida also reported him stressing: “We will not participate in any conference that is not based on international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative.”

Al-Quds added in this regard that three ministers besides to Abu Rudenieh put forward a plan for the provision of government services during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

On the other hand, al-Quds spotlighted the new government’s efforts to kick-start development and help achieve economic disengagement from Israel.

It explained that the government has launched 217 agricultural development projects in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The dailies said that President Mahmoud Abbas briefed the Russian ambassador to Palestine Haidar Aghanin on the latest political developments on the Palestinian arena.

Additionally, al-Quds and al-Ayyam highlighted Haaretz’ report Israel seeks to block all East Jerusalem family reunification hearings over ‘workload’.

Responding to the Israeli Interior Ministry, Director of the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights Ziad al-Hamouri was reported in al-Quds saying that the Israeli occupation authorities seek to alter the demographic composition of Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Moreover, the dailies said that Israeli warplanes struck with five rockets a Palestinian resistance post in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia allegedly in response to the launch of incendiary balloons by Palestinians.

Al-Quds added the Palestinian resistance targeted the Naqab in southern Israel.

According to al-Ayyam, a delegation of Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements arrived to Cairo to explore means to implement the stalled calm understandings with Israel.

Highlighting the situation in the West Bank, the dailies said that scores of Palestinian students suffocated from tear gas fired by Israeli forces toward a school in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Israeli forces sealed off Huwara military checkpoint, south of Nablus, purportedly after a settler was injured by a stone.

Al-Ayyam said that Israeli forces detained 17 Palestinians in multiple overnight raids across the West Bank.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli forces destroyed a pipeline supplying fresh water to Furush Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus city.

Al-Ayyam also reported that Israeli troops demolished an animal barn in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli occupation authorities banned the Palestinian Minister of Women’s Affairs Amal Hamad from tarveling to Jordan.

Regionally, al-Quds said that a member of the municipality of Karak in Jordan resigned in protest against the reception of an Israeli tourist delegation by the mayor.

It reported USAID Administrator Mark Green revealing that he was not consulted by the US administration officials before President Trump announced the last year’s cut of US aid to the Palestinians.

It also reported that US senators Mitt Romney and Chris Murphy warned that Trump’s plan, dubbed deal of the century, could destabilize Jordan.

It also reported al-Quds Center revealing that Israel conducted 53 settlement projects in the occupied West Bank in April 2019.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported UNRWA spokesman Sami Mshasha that an international conference for donor countries will be held in September in New York to discuss the financial crisis gripping the UN relief agency.

Al-Ayyam said that a bill was reintroduced to the US Congress with the purpose of curbing Israeli abuse of Palestinian children.

It said that three Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are hunger-striking in protest against their administrative detention.

Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida commenting of the Times of Israel’s Embracing racism, rabbis at pre-army yeshiva laud Hitler, urge enslaving Arabs.

He reportedly stressed that the report serves as an evidence to Israel’s decadence and indication that the occupation is the highest level of corruption.

K.F.