RAMALLAH, Monday, September 23, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli Palestinian political parties’ decision to endorse former military chief Benny Gantz for the position of prime minister dominated the front page headlines in Monday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that Arab Joint List recommends Gantz for heading the next Israeli government.
Al-Ayyam said in this regard that the Arab Joint List recommends Gantz for forming the next Israeli government despite reservations, dealing a blow to incumbent Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
On the other hand, al-Hayat al-Jadida opted to highlight President Mahmoud Abbas’ arrival to New York to attend the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
It said that Abbas met Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the sidelines of the 74th session of the UNGA.
The dailies added that Abbas also had a meeting with President of the European Investment Bank Werner Hoyer in New York.
According to the al-Quds and al-Ayyam, Israeli settlers razed Palestinian-owned land near Turmus Ayya village, north of Ramallah.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Israeli military bulldozers leveled Palestinian-owned land in Kafr Thulth town, south of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.
Al-Quds said that Israeli forces conducted multiple raids across the West Bank, ransacking houses and detaining a number of Palestinians.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida added that two Palestinian paramedics were injured from Israeli military gunfire during a raid in al-Eizariyya town, east of Jerusalem.
The dailies spotlighted the inauguration of the National Cancer and Hereditary Diseases Diagnoses Center by Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh in Ramallah.
Shtayyeh was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida hailing the new center as “contributing to Palestinians’ disengagement from Israel.”
Al-Quds reported that Palestinian political factions are leading a broad drive towards ensuring the successful efforts aimed to achieve reconciliation.
It added that Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmad Sadaat calls on Fatah and Hamas to agree on the national vision for ending the division.
According to al-Ayyam, Israeli occupation authorities have carried out their threat to cut electricity to the West Bank districts of Bethlehem and Ramallah.
The dailies added that the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO) has backed on a decision to disconnect electricity supplied to the West Bank district of Jericho.
Al-Quds added in this regard that Chairman of the Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority Thafer Melhem discussed the implications of Israel’s decision to cut electricity to several West Bank districts with JDECO Hisham Omari and the Palestinian High Judicial Council.
It reported the Palestine Investment Fund announcing the list of Palestinian enterprises in Jerusalem that benefited from the Jerusalem Funding Program.
Palestinian Health Ministry was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida identifying the woman recently killed from Israeli gunfire on Qalandia checkpoint as Nyfeh Kaabneh, 50.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam highlighted a Foreign Policy’s report revealing that the US covered up an Israeli nuclear test with South Africa’s apartheid government in 1979.
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