RAMALLAH, Friday, July 19, 2019 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas’ promulgation of two Presidential Decrees, and Israeli forces’ taking of the measurements of buildings slated for demolition in Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood, located on the edge of Sur Baher, southeast of the occupied city of Jerusalem, dominated the front page headlines in Friday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam said that President Mahmoud Abbas lowered the age of retirement for judges to sixty years old and dissolved the current High Judicial Council and established a new interim council.

Al-Quds reported that Israeli forces took measurements of the 16 buildings comprised of 100 apartments as a prelude to demolishing them, ignoring all calls and warnings from the United Nations and the international community against such move.

Al-Ayyam said Abdul Rahman Ishtaiwi, 10, who was shot in the head while playing near his home in Kufr Qaddoum to the east of Qalqilia, the occupied West bank, is still in a  coma and on life support.

Al-Ayyam and al-Quds quoted the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, B‘Tselem, as saying in this regard that Israel’s open-fire regulations are merely ink on paper. Al-quds covered the same story.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam covered the death of Nassar Majed Taqatqa, 31, who died on Tuesday in solitary confinement at the Nitzan prison in Israel.  

Both dailies said the results of the autopsy revealed that Taqatqa died due to deliberate medical negligence.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said results of the high school matriculation exams, the Tawjihi, showed almost 69.34 percent success rate in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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