Israeli settlement activities in and around occupied Jerusalem as well as the weather condition and snow falling were highlighted on the front page of today’s Palestinian Arabic dailies.
Al-Quds said while Israel demolished two apartments in al-Tur neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem and settlers attacked Palestinian civilians in Hebron and nearby Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank, the government is planning new settlement projects on occupied land south of Jerusalem as well as legalizing dozens of illegal settlement outposts spread throughout the West Bank.
Al-Ayyam reported on the above and said that the Israeli government intends to connect all settlement outposts with the electricity grid thus legalizing them. It also said that the Israeli government has plans to evacuate al-Khan al-Ahmar community, east of Jerusalem, in order to build a new settlement in that area.
The third Palestinian daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida, reported on the demolition of the two apartments in al-Tur and Israeli violations but made the weather condition its main top front-page story.
It said that the Palestinian Authority is preparing contingency plans to confront the snow that will arrive with the polar cold front expected to affect Palestine today and tomorrow, and as a result of this the government decided to end schools and work today at noon while shutting down all schools and government offices all day tomorrow, Thursday.
The paper also said that the Israeli occupation authorities moved the cancer-stricken and critically ill Palestinian prisoner, Nasser Abu Hmeid, from hospital to the Ramla prison clinic despite his critical health condition.
Al-Quds said Washington is asking Israel, once again, to explain the circumstances for the death of the elderly Palestinian-American Omar Assad after detaining him near Ramallah three weeks ago.
The three dailies also reported on the Covid-19 pandemic in Palestine and around the world with al-Quds saying that more than 170 Palestinian prisoners in Israel have been diagnosed as infected with coronavirus in the last 72 hours causing concern for the life and health of all Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
Source: Palestinian News & Information Agency