RAMALLAH, Thursday, August 08, 2019 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on their front page today the meeting yesterday between President Mahmoud Abbas and members of the US Congress in Ramallah.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam made this topic their main front page story with a photo of the meeting and said in the headline that Abbas stressed to his guests on the two-state solution and rejection of dictates by the US administration and Israel.
The third daily, al-Quds, reported on this topic but lower on the page and said that in addition to meeting the US lawmakers, Abbas also checked on the situation of the Palestinian pilgrims to Makkah and gave pardon to 20 convicted felons on the occasion of Eid al-Adha holiday, which starts on Sunday.
The main front page story in al-Quds focused on Israeli police and army measures in the occupied territories and said that police raided the home in Issawiyeh of the family of a young man police had killed last month, as soldiers destroyed a water pipeline and irrigation network in the Jordan Valley.
It said that police raided Makassed hospital in occupied Jerusalem late last night to arrest a Palestinian shot and injured by an Israeli while driving his car.
It also quoted the director of the Waqf department in Jerusalem, Azzam Khatib, saying that the situation at Al-Aqsa Mosque is serious as Israeli fanatics and police are intensifying their measures against the Muslim holy place and its employees, mainly the guards.
The paper printed a picture from Makkah of Muslims attending the pilgrimage praying around the Ka’aba and said more than two million Muslims begin the pilgrimage rituals tomorrow.
Al-Ayyam highlighted on its front page local and world reaction to Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territory and said while Europe and the United Nations have condemned the Israeli settlement activities, the US remained silent.
It said Nicaragua has decided to open an embassy in Palestine.
It also said Palestinian prisoners at the Israeli Ofer military camp and prison near Ramallah have reached an agreement that would end the conflict between them after prison guards had raided cells and attacked the prisoners.
It said that the Palestine Doctors Association (PMA) has decided to escalate its protest steps that started with a general strike in all medical facilities in the West Bank following its conflict with the general prosecutor’s office over the arrest and interrogation of a physician accused to harassing a female patient several months ago.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said on this subject that the Minister of Health called on the PMA to abide by a ruling for the High Court to end the strike.
The paper said in another topic that Jordan and Palestine have signed a memorandum of understanding in which Palestine would buy its petroleum derivatives from Jordan.
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