RAMALLAH, Saturday, October 05, 2019 (WAFA) – One Palestinian was killed yesterday and dozens were injured in Israeli army crackdown on the weekly March of Return protests on the Gaza border with Israel, reported the three Palestinian Arabic dailies in their main front page story today.
The three papers also printed pictures from the protests that started on March 30 of last year and had so far left several hundred Palestinians dead and tens of thousands injured from Israeli army gunfire.
The three papers also reported on their front page on the weekly anti-wall, anti-settlements protests in some West Bank villages that also resulted in dozens of injuries from Israeli army gunfire or excessive use of teargas and stun grenade.
In other main front page news, the three dailies highlighted statements by senior Fatah official and head of the Civil Affairs Authority, Hussein al-Sheikh, saying that an agreement was reached with Israel to resume transferring withheld clearance tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
According to al-Ayyam, Israel is going to transfer 1.8 billion Israeli shekels (more than $500 million) to the PA’s treasury, withheld since February, as the joint Palestinian-Israeli technical committees, suspended two decades ago, are expected to resume meetings tomorrow on all outstanding issues.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted al-Sheikh saying that even though an agreement was reached on resuming transfer of the revenues, the PA insists on paying allowances for families of Palestinian prisoners, wounded and killed by Israel at all costs.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida also said in another news item that the Saudi football association has agreed to allow one of its teams, and for the first time, to come to the occupied Palestinian territories to play against a Palestinian team. The game will take place on October 15 at Faisal Husseini Stadium in al-Ram, which is separated from occupied Jerusalem by the Israeli apartheid wall.
Al-Quds said Palestinians inside Israel demonstrated yesterday and for the second time in one week against rise in crime in their societies and Israeli police inaction.
It said 11 new Israeli industries are going to be built on 50 dunums of expropriated Qalandia land in occupied Jerusalem while plans are underway to expand the illegal settlement of Ramat Shlomo built on Shufat land, an East Jerusalem neighborhood.
Al-Ayyam quoted the United Nations saying there was an increase of 40% in Israeli demolition and seizure of Palestinian structures in the occupied Area C and Jerusalem so far this year in comparison to the same period last year.
It reported on the effort of one Israeli settler, protected by the army, to take over the Ein Samia water spring near Ramallah, the main water source for a large area of the West Bank.
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