RAMALLAH, Monday, August 05, 2019 (WAFA) – Attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank as well as intrusions by Israeli fanatics into Al-Aqsa Mosque and demolition of homes were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies today.
They said three Palestinians were injured near Nabi Saleh village in the Ramallah area after settlers threw rocks at them.
They said dozens of fanatic settlers held provocative tours of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, in Jerusalem’s Old City, which the fanatics want to destroy in order to build a Jewish temple in its location.
Al-Quds said the fanatics are pressing their government to end the control of the Muslim Waqf department over Al-Aqsa Mosque and extend the hours for visitation and to enter from all gates of the walled holy compound. Visitation is allowed only through one gate, the Mugharbi Gate.
Israeli forces also demolished a house that was still under construction in a village near Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank.
In other news, the papers reported on the tension at Ofer Israeli military camp and detention center located near Ramallah. They said Israeli prison guards raided two sections of the prison, one of them where minors are held.
Al-Quds said 40 prisoners have joined the hunger strikers in the Israeli prisons in a show of support for their demand to be released from administrative detention.
Al-Ayyam quoted Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh saying his government will consider all areas in the occupied West Bank as Area A, which means under full Palestinian control, after Israel has dismissed the classification of this area into A, B and C as stated in the Oslo accords.
It quoted Bassam Salhi, member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), saying the leadership’s strategy in ending work on the agreements with Israel is going in three tracks.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted another PLO official, Saeb Erekat, saying their strategy aims at ending the occupation and building the state of Palestine on the June 4, 1967.
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