The Palestinian Arabic-language dailies focused in their main story today on the ongoing war in Ukraine and the latest developments there.
Al-Ayyam and Al-Hayat Al-Jadida said Russian troops have launched an attack on Ukraine from all directions, but are facing relentless Ukrainian resistance that’s impeding their advance.
Al-Quds said in its main story: “Putin okays a wide-scale attack, and fierce clashes are taking place in Kyiv.”
Al-Ayyam and Al-Hayat Al-Jadida said four crisis cells have been formed by the Palestinian Foreign Ministry to ensure the safety of the Palestinian community and students in Ukraine.
Al-Ayyam said Germany has okayed the handover of lethal weapons to Ukraine, while it quoted French President Emmanuel Macron as saying that the war there will be longer than expected.
The daily said Russia vetoed a UN Security Council submitted by the US and Albania that would have condemned its war in Ukraine.
On a different subject, Al-Quds said Israeli settlers carried out several attacks yesterday against Palestinians in many areas of the occupied West Bank.
Al-Quds highlighted a statement by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem that Israel is controlling the daily lives of five million Palestinians living under its occupation.
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida said tensions have run high in the Israeli prisons where Palestinian political prisoners are held as a result of the Israeli repressive measures against them.
Al-Ayyam said clashes between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces were registered yesterday in the West Bank towns of Al-Yamun, Kafr Aqab, and Kafr Qaddum.
Al-Quds said a Palestinian family in Jabal al-Mukabber neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem started yesterday to self-demolish its home under pressure from the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)