RAMALLAH, Friday, July 26, 2019 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas’ remarks on the cessation of all signed agreements with Israel dominated the front page headlines in Friday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
Abbas was reported in the dailies declaring a cessation to all agreements signed with Israel.
He was also reported in al-Quds announcing the creation of a committee that would lead the effort to withdraw from all agreements with Israel.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida highlighted other parts of Abbas’ speech during an urgent meeting for the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah.
It reported him stating: “Palestine and Jerusalem are not for sale or bargain. They are not a real estate deal in a real estate company.”
It also reported him reiterating: “We will not surrender, we will not coexist with the occupation.”
It also reported him declaring: “We won’t yield to the dictates and the imposition of the fait accompli on the ground by brutal force.”
He was also reported accusing the US of sponsoring the Israeli apartheid regime against the Palestinian people.
Furthermore, al-Quds said that Israel has unveiled details about the project of railroads with Arab countries.
Al-Quds highlighted a meeting chaired by Palestinian attorney general Akram Khatib on the legal implications of the the latest Israeli rampage of home demolitions in Wadi al-Hummus.
It added that a host of Palestinian officials were briefed about the needs of the affected Palestinian families in Wadi al-Hummus.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that the United States blocked an attempt to get the United Nations Security Council to issue a statement condemning Israel’s demolitions of Palestinian homes in Wadi al-Hummus.
According to al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Quds, the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres condemned Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Japan expressed its deep concern over the demolition of Palestinian houses by Israel in Wadi al-Hummus.
Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh was reported in al-Ayyam stating that the division of the Palestinian territories into areas (A), (B) and (C) that had been agreed upon with Israel “was no longer in place.”
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam spotlighted Israeli human rights group B’Tselem’s report After the Supreme Court Praised the Open-Fire Policy, the Military Admits: We killed Protestors for No Reason.
They added that Israeli forces conducted multiple raids across the West Bank, detaining 19 Palestinians, mostly former prisoners.
The dailies said that Israeli forces injured a Palestinian young man and caused dozens others to suffocate from tear gas in Jenin refugee camp.
They added that Israeli military bulldozers razed Palestinian farmlands in al-Baqaa, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
They also reported that Israeli military bulldozers demolished a carwash and carpentry shop in the northern West Bank district of Salfit.
Highlighted the death of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, al-Ayyam said that President Abbas paid condolences to Tunisia for the death of Essebsi, and declared a three-day mourning in the Palestinian territories.
It also reported that Abbas will head to Tunisia to participate in the funeral of Essebsi.
According to al-Ayyam, human rights centers are calling for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of an inmate in a Hamas-run prison in Gaza.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails jumped to nine.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that CEO of the Palestinian National Fund Ramzi Khoury attended the 8th Annual Canon Law Conference in Jordan on behalf of President Abbas.
The conference was held by the Ecclesiastical Court of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome at the Dead Sea in Jordan.
Internationally, al-Quds said that White House senior advisor Jared Kushner is collecting data on Arab media to assess their impact on readers and audience.
Al-Quds report is based on McClatchy’s report Jared Kushner is deploying a data operation to sway Arab media on Middle East peace.
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