RAMALLAH, Monday, September 02, 2019 (WAFA) – The new conflict on the Lebanese-Israeli border and Israeli settlement activities were the focus of today’s Palestinian Arabic dailies.

Al-Ayyam led with news about the conflict in southern Lebanon as well as local and world reactions to it.

Al-Quds reported on the conflict as its main front page story along with statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he said that he is going to impose Israeli sovereignty on all the settlements in the occupied territories deemed illegal by international law.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted in its main front page story presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh saying in a statement that the settlements are illegitimate and that they are going to be dismantled just as the settlements in Gaza and the Sinai were dismantled.

It also quoted Saeb Erekat, an official with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), condemning Netanyahu’s statements describing them as a danger to the world order, demanding sanctions against the Israeli occupation.

In other news, al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted the general prosecutor saying that nothing will be said about the killing of Isra Gharib, who was apparently murdered in what is called “honor killing”, before the investigation is completed.

The paper also quoted Palestine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, saying that President Mahmoud Abbas is going to address the General Assembly next month.

Al-Ayyam said several Palestinians were injured in Israeli army raids and settler attacks in the West Bank.

It said a Palestinian resident of Silwan, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, was forced to demolish his own house to prevent paying high costs to the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem if its staff demolishes it for construction without permit.

Al-Quds said Israel seized 85 dunums of Palestinian-owned land in Shufat, a neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, for Jewish settlement purpose.

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