RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 09, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli police attacking Palestinian Muslim worshippers in Jerusalem’s Old City following the night prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies today.

They said police attacked the worshippers as they were leaving the Mosque at Lions’ Gate and at Damascus Gate and arrested three, according to al-Ayyam.

The papers also said dozens of Palestinians were injured in Hebron in the south of the West Bank when attacked by soldiers and in Bethlehem during an army incursion into the city, and in the north of the West Bank, soldiers declared an archeological area in Sebastia a closed military zone to allow Jewish settlers to visit the area and hold religious rituals there.

In other news, al-Ayyam said Hamas and Islamic Jihad delegations returned to the Gaza Strip after holding talks in Egypt on calm with Israel.

It said the United Nations expressed concern that shortage of funds harms food assistance provided to the Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

Al-Quds quoted in a report by its Washington correspondent former US diplomat William Burns saying in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post that the Trump administration’s deal of the century on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is “doomed by delusions.”

Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh saying that the policy of blackmail will not force the Palestinians to accept the deal of century.

It also quoted Palestine Liberation Organization official Saeb Erekat saying that dropping the two-state solution is dropping chances of peace.

It said the Ministry of Health sent truckloads of medicine to the Gaza Strip.

The papers reported as well on Arab and international issues such as the resignation of the Jordanian government, the situation in Sudan and Iran’s decision to suspend some of its nuclear deal commitments.

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