RAMALLAH, Thursday, July 25, 2019 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman dominated the front page headlines in Thursday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Quds reported that the two leaders discussed ways to address Israeli assaults against the Palestinian people.

Abbas was also reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating that he does not condone home demolitions in Areas A, B, or C and considering the latest Israeli rampage of home demolitions in Wadi al-Hummus, which is classified as Area A, “extremely offensive”.

Abdullah was reported in al-Ayyam stressing his rejection of the Israeli policies of settlement construction and home demolitions.

He was also reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida reaffirming that Jordan stands with the Palestinians and underscoring the need to preserve the legal and historical status quo in Jerusalem.

On the other hand, al-Quds opted to highlight US President Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt’s comments on solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Greenblatt was reported saying that international consensus would not be able to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Furthermore, al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that the Israeli rampage of home demolitions in Wadi al-Hummus evoked more condemnations.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida elaborated that Algeria, Egypt and Luxembourg decried the demolitions of Palestinian homes in Wadi al-Hummus.

The dailies said that Israeli military bulldozers destroyed a nature reserve and water wells in Khirbet Umm al-Khair in the southern Hebron hills.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Israeli forces rounded up 23 Palestinians in multiple overnight raids across the West Bank

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported families of Palestinian citizens of Israel killed in October 2000 slamming Ehud Barak’s apology for the killing as an election campaign.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam highlighted Israeli judicial attempts to dismiss an indictment against an Israeli settler involved in the arson attack against the Dawabsha family in 2015.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that President Abbas cabled Boris Johnson congratulating him on his election as leader of the British Conservative Party and winning the premiership of the United Kingdom.

Internationally, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning the Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the United Nations (UN) slamming the Israeli occupation for depriving Palestinian women of their most basic human rights.

This came as the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a resolution on the economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan.

Al-Ayyam said that Lebanese Labor Minister Camille Abousleiman rejects the Palestinian refugees’ demands, prompting Palestinian refugees to call for ongoing demonstrations against the Lebanese government’s decision restricting their right to work.

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