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The demolition of a Palestinian home in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan for the second time in a week dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Wednesday.
The dailies reported Israeli occupation authorities demolished a home belonging to the Abu Sneineh family in Silwan only days after completing it to shelter him and his family. The family’s original home was demolished last week under the pretext it was built without permit.
As part of their main news items, al-Quds and al-Ayyam also reported Israeli police stationed at Lions’ Gate that leads to East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound prevented textbooks from being delivered to three Palestinian schools located inside the walled holy site.
Al-Quds also reported al-Quds International Institution revealing Israeli occupation authorities have dug a number of tunnels and excavations under Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the surrounding area, threatening the core foundation of the Mosque that could cause its collapse.
It added Israeli bulldozers razed Palestinian land in Ezbet Abu al-Basal area, northwest of Salfit, as part of a plan it has advanced to expand nearby Jewish settlements.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Israeli forces seized caravans used as classrooms for an elementary school in Jib al-Deeb, a village located to the east of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Covering the demolition of the Silwan home and seizure of mobile caravans belonging to the school in its main news item, Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Israeli occupation was “sowing destruction.”
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said a number of Palestinians were injured as they clashed with Israeli troops during a raid into Izzarieh, southeast of Jerusalem.
Al-Ayyam added Israeli police detained a Palestinian man and his daughter from East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
Al-Quds said the Palestinian cabinet expressed its appreciation of Palestinian-Jordanian-Egyptian coordination following Foreign Minister Riyad Malki’s meeting with his Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts in Cairo on Monday.
Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Malki calling on British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to recognize the Palestinian state in a declaration akin to the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
The dailies added the cabinet announced that all government institutions would be closed from August 31 until September 4 for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Al-Quds said Israeli government has asked the Israeli Supreme Court to reject petitions filed by Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations against a law that allows expropriation of Palestinian land.
The so-called Regularization Law, also known as the Legalization or Formalization Law, paves the way for the retroactive legalization under Israeli law of dozens of so-called settlement outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
These outposts were built without official approval from Israeli authorities, but tacitly supported by successive Israeli governments as part of an effort to colonize as much Palestinian land in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as possible. Under International law, all Israeli settlements, including outposts, are illegal.
Al-Ayyam reported Israeli human rights organizations saying the Israeli government’s response to their petition against the so-called Regularization Law was a reward for Israeli settlers who stole Palestinian land.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the United Nations (UN) decided to publish a blacklist of firms doing business in Israeli settlements.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam added in this regard that US was pushing to prevent the publication of the UN blacklist of these firms.
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Secretary-General of Fatah Central Committee Jibril Rjoub announcing that a Palestinian-Turkish summit would be held in Turkey on August 28.
They added Fatah and Hamas movements held a meeting at the Palestinian embassy in Lebanon in order to discuss developments in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported member of Fatah Central Committee Azzam al-Ahmad stating the information available indicate that the US administration’s peace envoys lack any clear vision on peacemaking.
(WAFA)
