RAMALLAH, The three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today – al-Quds, al-Ayyam, and al-Hayat al-Jadida – highlighted on their front page non-stop state-led Israeli efforts to steal Palestinian land for settlement projects.

The main front-page story headline in al-Quds reads: “An Israeli military decision facilitates leaking West Bank land to the settlers.”

Al-Ayyam, in its main front-page story headline, said: “Preventing the possibility of having Palestinian urban contiguity in East Jerusalem: The occupation authorities propose a plan to build 1446 new settlement housing units on Sur Baher land.”

The third daily, al-Hayat al-Jadida, headlined its main front-page story: “Settlers attack people near Tulkarm and in the northern Jordan Valley, and set fire to agricultural land west of Salfit: The occupation authorities demolish, blow up homes and structures in the West Bank.”

The other two dailies reported as well on the demolitions, focusing mainly on the blowing up of the two houses in Qarawat Bani Hassan near Salfit of the families of two Palestinian detainees in Israel suspected of killing an Israeli settler in April, as well as other demolitions elsewhere in the West Bank.

Al-Quds said in a report that it has information that the US administration has expressed dismay and concern about the Israeli settlement plans announced only days after President Joe Biden has left the region.

It said that settlers are proposing to the West Jerusalem Israeli municipality and other government officials to enlarge the Magharbi Gate used only by Jewish settlers and fanatics and foreign visitors to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, build a fixed bridge, and increase the hours the fanatics can be inside the Mosque compound.

Al-Ayyam quoted a report saying that the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem demolished 94 Palestinian-owned houses in occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of the year.

It said the family of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh met in Washington with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding justice for their daughter shot and killed in cold blood by Israeli soldiers on May 11 in Jenin.

The newspaper quoted a US official saying that the $100 million US aid to the Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem announced during Biden’s visit is expected to be dispersed before the end of the year.

It said the United Arab Emirates is financing the building of a soccer field in Israel over the remains of Palestinians massacred by Israeli forces in Kufr Qassem, while Morocco and Israel sign a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the legal sector.

Al-Quds said, quoting a report by Physicians for Human Rights, that Israel rejected 80 percent of applications by children in Gaza to leave the besieged Strip for medical treatment in West Bank or East Jerusalem hospitals.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted the spokesman of the Palestinian security forces saying that suspects in the shooting attack of university professor Nasser Eddin al-Shaer have been detained.

Source: Palestine News Agency