RAMALLAH, Wednesday, July 03, 2019 (WAFA) – The imminent eviction of the Palestinian Director of the Imperial Hotel in the occupied city of East Jerusalem dominated the front page headlines in Wednesday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Quds reported that Director of the Imperial Hotel Mohammad Dajani received an Israeli order to evict the hotel and pay 10 million shekels for Israeli settlers, while al-Ayyam said that an Israeli settler group has handed Dajani a warning to evict the hotel.

Dajani was reported in al-Quds urging President Mahmoud Abbas, Jordan King Abdullah II and the Greek government to intervene.

The eviction order comes almost a month after Israel’s Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and approved the sale of three strategically located properties in Jerusalem’s Old City to Ateret Cohanim settler group.

The assets include the Petra and Imperial hotels overlooking the Omar Bin al-Khattab Square near Jaffa Gate and a plot of land that includes a building known as al-Muadamiya, located near Bab Hutta in Jerusalem’s Old City.

On the other hand, al-Hayat al-Jadida opted to highlighted Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeniheh’s remarks in its front page news item.

Abu Rudeineh was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam stating that strategic regional stability will not be achieved without ending the Israeli occupation ]of the Palestinian and Arab territories[.

Director of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan Jawad Siyam was reported in al-Quds rejecting blatant Israeli attempts to politicize archeology in the East Jerusalem neighborhood.

Siyman made his remarks days after US officials helped to sledge-hammer the opening to a tunnel beneath the Palestinian neighborhood, part of a project by Elad, an organization that settles Israeli Jews in occupied East Jerusalem in violation of international law.

Al-Quds published Latin Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah’s opinion article What is happening at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.

It said that 79 Israeli settlers and 326 followers of Christian Zionism forced their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

The dailies spotlighted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) decision to remove the Church of the Nativity from the list of endangered world heritage at the request of Palestine.

Al-Quds highlighted an Associated Press’ report indicating that US duty free tycoons fund Israeli settlements.

It also reported the European Union Special Representative to the Middle East Peace Process Susanna Terstal stating that there was no alternative to the two-state solution.

According to the dailies, Israeli forces delivered demolition notices for a Palestinian house and park in Burqa village, northwest of Nablus.

They added that a young Palestinian man was shot and detained by Israeli police at the entrance of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shufat.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Israeli settlers are demanding the cessation of the construction of a new Palestinian city to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

According to al-Ayyam,  undercover Israeli forces kidnapped a Palestinian and his son from the southern West Bank city of Yatta.

With connection to Egypt’s efforts to consolidate calm in Gaza, al-Ayyam highlighted media reports about the postponement of the Egyptian security delegation’s visit to the besieged coastal enclave of Gaza.

It said that four Palestinians prisoners held under administrative detention have started an open-ended hunger strike with expectations that the number of hunger strikers would increase.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported President Abbas expressing his condolences to President of the United Arab Emirates Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan over the death of Sheikh Khalid bin Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, the son of the Sharjah Ruler.

It said that the Palestinian government signed €22 million agreement with several European countries to support education in Palestine.

It added that Israeli forces rounded up dozens of Palestinians, including a physician and seven students enrolled in Birzeit University, during multiple raids across the West Bank.

K.F.