RAMALLAH, Monday, August 19, 2019 (WAFA) – The funeral procession of the three Palestinians killed by Israeli military gunfire in the northern besieged Gaza Strip dominated the front page headlines in Monday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral procession of the three Palestinians killed by Israeli military gunfire in Gaza.
Al-Ayyam printed the headline “Bait Lahia massacre: the bodies of the three Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire were pulled out and a fourth Palestinian was seriously injured after they have been targeted by Israeli military forces.”
The three slain Palestinians, identified as Mahmoud al-Walayda, 24, Mohammad Abu Namoos, 27, and Mohammad al-Taramsi, 26, were killed purportedly as they attempted to infiltrate the Gaza Strip into Israel on Sunday.
The dailies said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to carry out a large-scale onslaught against Gaza.
The Follow-up Committee in Gaza was reported in al-Ayyam saying that the local missiles fired from Gaza to southern Israel were “the outcome of individual acts”.
They said that President Mahmoud Abbas received a Japanese delegation at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah.
He was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida stating that despite the Israeli occupation, Palestine has proved as an effective state on the international arena.
Furthermore, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was reported in al-Quds expressing his willingness to meet President Abbas in Gaza.
He was also reported in al-Quds and al-Ayyam announcing his movement’s readiness for “indirect” negotiations on a prisoner exchange deal with Israel.
According to al-Quds and al-Ayyam, Israeli forces destroyed a water cistern used by Palestinian farmers in the northern Jordan Valley.
Al-Quds added that Israeli forces carried out a raid into Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank.
It reported that Israeli police continued to storm Bab al-Rahma prayer area inside Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and carried away its contents.
It also reported that 141 Israeli settlers led by lawmaker Yehuda Glick forced their way into the mosque compound.
The dailies added in this regard that Jordan summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman over Israeli violations in the mosque compound.
According to al-Quds, the Israeli government has allocated an additional budget purportedly to develop al-Buraq Square, also known as the Western Wall Plaza.
Additionally, the dailies reported that Israeli police shut down a Palestinian tournament at Burj Al-Laqlaq Center in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Al-Quds noted that Israeli police banned the tournament, organized by local Palestinian families, following Israeli ‘Public Security’ Minister Gilad Erdan’s instructions.
Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub was reported in al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida slamming the tournament ban as a flagrant and grave breach of the Olympic Charter.
According to al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Palestinian political factions in the West Bank city of Ramallah are determined to foil a conference to be convened by the US embassy in Jerusalem in Ramallah on Wednesday August 21.
According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, the number of Palestinian prisoners hunger striking in Israeli jails against their administrative detention jumped to eight.
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