RAMALLAH: The three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today continued to highlight on their front page the Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and the large number of people killed.
Al-Ayyam daily said 300 people were killed in new Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip, while one person was killed in an army assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin, where seven others were also killed the day before.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida daily said Palestine was under fire from the north to the south as the Israeli occupation army continues its aggression on Jenin and its camp for the third day in a row, killing and injuring people, and hundreds were killed and wounded as bombings in the Gaza Strip continue for the 69th day in a row.
The third daily, al-Quds, said 18,608 people were killed in Gaza, 70 percent of them children and women, as Israel is suffering big losses in the Gaza Strip.
It said that as Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Advisor, arrives in Israel today to work on endi
ng the war on Gaza, the Israeli government said it will persist in its military operations despite the international pressure.
The paper also said the Israeli occupation authorities demolished a residential building in Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem and settlers’ attacks continue.
It said Hezbollah and Israel continued to exchange cross-border gunfire, while al-Ayyam said that four Hezbollah members were killed or injured in an Israeli bombing of south Lebanon.
Al-Ayyam also quoted Euro-Med Monitor saying that it documented 120 mass cemeteries in Gaza as the Israeli army turns schools into military bases and continues to carry out field executions.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the presidency welcomed the United Nations General Assembly vote calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
It quoted prisoner groups saying that crimes are being committed against the prisoners in Israeli jails, the most serious in many years.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA