The Israeli occupation army and settlers’ violence against the Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today.
They said that dozens of people were injured when the Israeli occupation forces suppressed the weekly anti-occupation, anti-settlements protests at different locations in the West Bank.
Settlers also attacked Palestinian civilians under army protection with al-Quds daily saying that residents of Jawarish village, southeast of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, confronted settlers who attempted to build illegal shacks on their lands.
The army later removed the structures placed by the settlers on Jawarish land with al-Ayyam daily saying the two fascist ministers in the new far-right Israeli government, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, opposed the removal of the outpost.
Al-Quds said Ben Gvir wants his government to deduct more money from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) tax revenues as a punishment, and that the United States has asked Israel to ease the measures it has imposed on the PA.
It also said that the International Court of Justice has officially received from the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres a request to issue an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s “occupation, settlement and annexation … including measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem,” as requested in the UN General Assembly resolution passed on December 30.
Al-Quds said in another report that Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan stressed that this country will not normalize relations with Israel before a Palestinian state is established. He was responding to a statement issued by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he said he discussed with visiting US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan normalizations of relations with Saudi Arabia.
The third daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida, said President Mahmoud Abbas met with a Turkish delegation at his office and that he stressed the importance of the Turkish role in support of the Palestinian issue.
It also said that Israeli police attacked a Fatah delegation after visiting released Palestinian freedom fighter Maher Younis at his hometown of Ara inside Israel. Two members of the delegation were severely beaten and arrested.
Source: Palestine News & Info Agency