RAMALLAH, Thursday, August 29, 2019 (WAFA) – The recent explosions that targeted two Hamas-run police checkpoints and resulted in the killing of three security officers and wounding others in the besieged Gaza Strip dominated the front page headlines in Thursday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Quds reported that the three slain security officers were laid to their rest in Gaza. It printed a photo showing Hamas-run police officers attending the funeral procession.

Al-Ayyam printed a headline reading: “Al-Ayyam uncovers new details: Two suicide bombers surprised the Hamas-run police officers and blew themselves, Hamas has identified the suicide bombers.”

It added in this regard that Hamas-run security forces are placed on alert, conducting inspection and arrest operations against Salafists.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported the government stating that Hamas is making false accusations ]against the West Bank-based Intelligence Service[ in an attempt to conceal the true perpetrators.

It also reported Fatah movement stating that Hamas movement always seeks to incite strife and add fuel to the fire.

The government made such a statement after Hamas said that the two explosions were ordered by Intelligence chief Majed Faraj.

Additionally, all-Ayyam said that Israeli forces carried out detention raids in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan and Beitunia town, near Ramallah.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli forces raided Beitunia and Ein Arik towns, located to the west of Ramallah, where they seized the footages of surveillance cameras.

It added that Israeli forces detained 12 Palestinians in multiple overnight raids across the West Bank.

According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli bulldozers razed an agricultural road in al-Tira village, west of Ramallah.

They added that Israeli settlers stormed al-Masudiyya archeological site, located between the towns of Burqa and Sebastia, in the northern West Bank.

Al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported US Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt announcing that the US would not release parts of the long-delayed of the Mideast plan, dubbed deal of the century, before the upcoming Israeli elections.

Turning to Jerusalem, al-Quds said that the Israeli Antiquities Authority and the Elad settler group are stepping up their work in the tunnel under the Umayyad Palaces in the southern part of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Elad is a shadowy settler organization that seeks to forcefully displace Palestinians from Jerusalem in line with the policy championed by successive Israeli governments to Judaize Jerusalem.

Al-Ayyam highlighted the findings of a Peace Now report showing that there has been a boom in the settlement construction in Jerusalem since US President Donald Trump took office.

Al-Quds reported the Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority warning against the implications of Israel’s decision to cut half of the fuel supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip, particularly to hospitals and schools.

It spotlighted Israeli efforts to extract concessions from the US in return for not thwarting US-Iran diplomacy.

It elaborated that there have been recent speculations in Washington that US President Donald Trump might agree that Israel annexes parts of the West Bank in return for US-Iran rapprochement.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Palestinian factions in the west Bank cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh have successfully foiled a planned meeting with the US commercial attaché.

Al-Ayyam said that there was an unsuccessful attempt to launch a missile from Gaza to southern Israel, while Israel warplanes targeted an observatory for the Palestinian resistance in the besieged coastal enclave.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida printed a feature story about Majd Rimwai, now a student in the first grade who was conceived using smuggled sperms from his father, Abdul-Karim, currently in Israeli detention.

It highlighted the ongoing closure of Al-Azhar University in Gaza in protest of the extension of the terms of its chairman.

It also reported that Jerusalem District Electricity Company has signed an agreement to purchase electricity from Turkey’s Zorlu Energy.

Internationally, al-Quds reported Chinese permanent envoy to the United Nations Zhang Jun urging safeguarding the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

According to al-Ayyam Honduras recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, opens a diplomatic office in Jerusalem.

It said that a Harvard University student from Palestine was denied entry to the US because of his friends’ political posts on social media.

K.F.