RAMALLAH, Saturday, August 24, 2019 (WAFA) – The explosion near Ramallah that killed an Israeli settler and injured two others as well as revenge acts by the settlers against the civilian Palestinian population in the occupied territory were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies today.
The papers said settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles on West Bank roads following the death of the settler as the Israeli army set up roadblocks and closed main roads for hours preventing Palestinian movement on these roads.
The papers also reported on the weekly protests in the Gaza Strip and West Bank against Israeli occupation and settlement activities and said more than 150 people were injured by Israeli army gunfire in both regions but more so in Gaza when soldiers attacked protesters participating in the weekly March of Return demonstrations on the Gaza border with Israel injuring over 120 people, some of them with live bullets and two reported in critical condition.
Al-Quds said the Iraqi envoy to Gaza, Mohammad Amadi, declared from Gaza yesterday an increase in the number of families to benefit from the Qatari aid.
The paper quoted French President Emmanuel Macron telling an Israeli newspaper that he does not pin any hope on the American deal of the century to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and that he is drawing plans of his own.
It said in a report by its Washington correspondent that there are claims that it was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who suggested to US President Donald Trump to call on Israel to bar the two US congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, from entering Israel and Palestine.
Al-Ayyam said that the family of a 9-year-old Palestinian child injured in the head about a month ago by an Israeli sniper’s bullet in the village of Kufr Qaddoum in the north of the West Bank is still waiting for answers from the Israeli army as to how and why their son, Abdul Rahman, who is still in an Israeli hospital in serious condition, was shot.
It quoted a United Nations agency saying Israel demolished 24 Palestinian buildings in the West Bank in the last two weeks.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said President Mahmoud Abbas praised during a meeting with a Jordanian parliamentary delegation the support Palestine gets form Jordan and its King Abdullah.
It quoted the Foreign Ministry saying that plans were completed to transfer the body of a Palestinian who died in Bosnia to Gaza to be buried there.
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