News about the death of a hunger-striking Palestinian detainee in Israeli jails, the Palestinian reaction to it as well as Israel’s bombing of several sites in the Gaza Strip, hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Wednesday.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that Palestinian detainee in Israel, Khader Adnan, 44, is dead after 86 days of hunger strike in protest against his detention.
They said that the Israel Prison Services (IPS) informed the prisoners that Adnan, from the town of Arraba, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, who was detained on February 5, has died after his long hunger strike during which he refused to take any additives or get any medical attention.
Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh accused Israel of deliberately assassinating the prisoner Khader Adnan, saying in a statement that “the Israeli occupation and its prison administration carried out a deliberate assassination against the prisoner Khader Adnan by rejecting his request for his release, neglecting him medically, and keeping him in his cell despite the seriousness of his health condition,” as reported in the papers.
The dailies said that the Palestinian territories observed today a general strike in mourning the death of the hunger-striking detainee, noting that the national forces declared the strike that affected all aspects of life in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in protest against the Israeli crime that led to the death of Adnan, 44, and held the occupation government fully responsible for his death.
The newspapers reported that hundreds of Palestinians marched in several West Bank cities in protest against the death of Palestinian hunger striker while in prison and clashes broke out in several locations. The soldiers responded to the protesters by firing tear gas and shooting rubber bullets at them injuring several people.
Israeli fighter jets embarked on a series of airstrikes tonight across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing massive damage to multiple targets but no casualties so far, according to the dailies.
Al-Quds said that Amnesty International maintained that the Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology to entrench apartheid and continued domination and oppression of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
In a report titled Automated Apartheid: How Facial Recognition Fragments, Segregates and Controls Palestinians in the OPT, Amnesty International (AI) documents how the occupation authorities are utilizing Artificial Intelligence-driven surveillance tools, including the Red Wolf, the latest experimental surveillance tool deployed against Palestinians.
(WAFA)
