RAMALLAH, Sunday, October 06, 2019 (WAFA) – News about the house which was set on fire in the town of Azzun, near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, after it was hit with a teargas canister by Israeli soldiers yesterday, made headlines today across the three Palestinian Arabic dailies.

The dailies said the house was partially set ablaze after it was hit by a teargas canister by Israeli occupation forces, who raided the town of Azzun near of Qalqilia, and that more than 20 Palestinians sustained suffocation from gas inhalation during the raid.

On a different subject, al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam quoted several Palestinian officials and economists who said that reactivating the joint Palestinian-Israeli technical committees will allow the Palestinians to pursue all issues that Israel has not abided by in the Paris Economic Protocol.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted Hussein Al-Sheikh, chairman of the General Authority for Civil Affairs, as saying that the joint Palestinian-Israeli technical committees will start meetings as of October 6 and will discuss all the files including changing the mechanisms for the payment of funds.

Al-Quds quoted a UN report which said that the number of Israeli checkpoints scattered across the occupied West Bank has increased by 130% compared with the previous year.

The three dailies said thousands of Palestinians in Israel continued to protest for the second week against an upsurge in criminality and violence, as a result of Israeli police’s inaction towards weapons trade.

Al-Ayyam quoted Israeli Channel 12 as saying that Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz met on the sideline of the UN General Assembly last month with several foreign ministers from Arab Gulf states, and that he negotiated with them a “non-aggression pact” to face off an increasingly emboldened Iran.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam said over 100 Iraqis have been killed in a government crackdown on anti-corruption protests across Iraq which continued for the second week.

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