News about the Israeli forces’ suppression of an anti-settlement protest in the occupied West Bank, as well as other Israeli violations, hit the front pages of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that Israeli occupation forces suppressed an anti-settlement protest march that started at the occupied West Bank city of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley as the march reached a military checkpoint east of Tubas. A number of protesters suffered from suffocation due to inhaling tear gas fired at them by the Israeli forces. Members of the press were also assaulted.
The Israeli occupation authorities seized a large tract of cultivated land belonging to Tarqumia town, northwest of Hebron, as reported in the dailies, who said that Israeli forces handed several residents of the southern West Bank town notices ordering them to evacuate their olive and grape-cultivated land, which covers an estimated area of 600 dunums, purportedly for being classified as “state land”.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that the Israeli authorities are planning to establish 5,000 settlement units on lands in the occupied Jerusalem-area villages of al-Walaja and Battir.
Al-Quds said the settlers plan to build 10 settlement outposts in the occupied territories during the visit by US President Joe Biden to the region.
it also said the bill to enforce the Israeli law on settlers in the occupied territories has not passed in the Knesset.
Al-Ayyam said 418 extremist Israeli settlers stormed Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. It quoted the spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, saying the daily storming by Jewish extremists into the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards has become an invasion and not simply a visit.
He stressed the importance of preserving the legal and historical status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque, warning that the continuation of this invasion would turn the conflict into a religious war with serious repercussions.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the cabinet decided to meet again on Thursday to discuss the rise in prices.
It said Palestinian hunger striker, Khalil Awawdeh, who has been fasting for over three months demanding his release from administrative detention in Israel, is facing serious health conditions.
Al-Quds said the Israeli High Court ruled that the Palestinian Authority should pay six million shekels ($1.8m) to the families of two settlers killed in an explosion 20 years ago.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)