The so-called flags march and the hooliganism that accompanied it by thousands of right-wing Israelis targeting Palestinian citizens of occupied East Jerusalem were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
The papers – al-Quds, al-Ayyam, and al-Hayat al-Jadida – printed pictures of the Israeli police brutally attacking Palestinians in the city as flag-waving Israelis held their provocative march through the old city.
The papers published Palestinian, Arab and international reactions to the provocative and violent Israeli behavior in Jerusalem and at the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque.
They also said Palestinians in the West Bank also held demonstrations and clashed with Israeli soldiers at contact points in solidarity with occupied Jerusalem and in protest against the Israeli brutal behavior against the Palestinians in the holy city.
Al-Quds daily said over 200 Palestinians were injured from army live bullets, rubber bullets, or tear gas during these clashes.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida daily quoted presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh telling the Israeli premier that Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state, and Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh also stressing that occupied Jerusalem is the Palestinian capital.
Al-Ayyam said an Israeli law is being discussed that bans raising the Palestinian flag in Israeli universities in light of the Nakba commemoration rally that took place at Ben Gurion University in the Naqab desert where Palestinian flags were raised.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)