RAMALLAH, Palestinian Arabic-language dailies focused today on remarks made by Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, who said that the President has instructed Palestine’s ambassadors around the world to launch a campaign to expose the crimes committed against the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted Abu Rudenieh as saying that President Mahmoud Abbas is following with great interest and concern the unprecedented crackdown by the Israeli occupation authorities on the Palestinian freedom fighters in the Israeli prisons.
Al-Quds and Al-Ayyam said vigils were held across Palestine yesterday on the occasion of the National Day for Retrieval of the Bodies of Palestinian Martyrs. The organizers demanded the Israeli occupation authorities to hand over the bodies of slain Palestinians whose bodies are withheld by the Israeli occupation.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called yesterday for the immediate handover by Israeli occupation authorities of the bodies of scores of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces over the past years.
Al-Quds said the Israeli occupation army ordered today the demolition of two rooms annexed to a home in the village of al-Walaja, in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.
Al-Ayyam and Al-Quds said nearly a million and 385 thousand students across Palestine are due to begin the new school year tomorrow, Sunday.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are expected to dissolve their representative bodies that coordinate with jail authorities today in protest of the Israeli repressive measures against them.
Al-Ayyam said that according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli occupation forces have demolished or confiscated 564 Palestinian-owned buildings since the beginning of the year.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike for the 168th day in protest of his detention without charge or trial by Israeli occupation authorities.
Al-Ayyam and Al-Quds said Israeli police yesterday removed a mural for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye.
Source: Palestine News & Info Agency