RAMALLAH, Saturday, August 17, 2019 (WAFA) – The killing of a 27-year-old Palestinian father of one child following what was believed to be a car ramming attack south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank received front page headlines in today’s Palestinian Arabic newspapers.
Al-Ayyam described the shooting of Alaa Hreimi, from Bethlehem, as “execution,” while al-Quds and al-Ayyam described him as “martyr.” They said two Israeli settlers were injured when hit by the car Hreimi was driving.
In other front page news, the dailies also highlighted the large number of injuries among Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank during confrontations with Israeli soldiers.
They said dozens were injured when Israeli soldiers opened fire at protesters in the March of Return activity on the Gaza border with Israel, with half of them were hit by live bullets.
Similarly, dozens were injured in confrontations with Israeli soldiers in different place of the West Bank, mainly in Izzarieh, Abu Dis, Kufr Qaddoum and Kufr Malik.
US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib cancelling her trip to Palestine in light of the Israeli conditions and restrictions on her visit also received front page headlines in the three dailies.
They all said that Tlaib, who, along with another US congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, was first denied entry into Israel on a fact finding mission but then allowed entry under strict conditions and to only visit her elderly grandmother in the West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Fouqa, said that she turned down the visit because she does not want to be treated like a criminal.
Al-Ayyam said Palestinians held the Friday noon prayer at the demolished homes in Wadi al-Hummus area of Sur Baher, a neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Israel recently demolished 10 Palestinian buildings in that area claiming they were too close to its separation wall.
The paper also said that Israeli police attacked the weekly protest in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem against Israeli takeover of Palestinian homes in order to turn them over to Jewish settlers.
Al-Quds said Turkey condemned statements by Israeli Public Security minister Gilad Erdan in which he supported allowing Jews to prayer in the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site located in occupied Jerusalem.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted the Arab List party in Israel saying that the developments in occupied Jerusalem were a direct result of Israeli policies.
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