Newspapers Review: Dailies highlight Israeli airstrikes on Gaza that left one dead

The three Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on their front page on Thursday the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip that left one Palestinian dead and few injured.

Al-Quds said the attacks came after a missile fired from Gaza fell on the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheba.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida considered the attacks as an Israeli escalation.

Al-Ayyam said one dead, three wounded in the airstrikes that targeted a number of locations in the Gaza Strip.

It also quoted the Palestinian factions in Gaza stressing the importance of national unity to deal with the dangers facing the Gaza Strip.

The papers also highlighted Israeli measures in the West Bank, particularly the events at Khan al-Ahmar, where Israeli forces attacked activists, wounded some and detained a woman.

They also reported on the house demolitions in Jabal al-Mukabber in Jerusalem and the Hebron area.

Al-Ayyam highlighted the statement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, in which she warned that transfer of population in an occupied territory constitutes war crime.

Al-Quds quoted US envoy Jason Greenblatt saying that the American peace plan calls for unifying the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It said the “deal of the century” is going to be made public soon, according to US officials.

The paper also said West Jerusalem’s Israeli mayor, Nir Barkat, has detailed a plan to end the presence and work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted President Mahmoud Abbas telling a delegation from the American J Street and others that “we differentiate between the United State and its current administration, which drove the peace process into a dead end.”

It also said Palestinians welcomed the vote at the United Nations General Assembly that granted Palestine more powers to chair the Group of 77 plus China.

The papers also highlighted developments in the case of missing Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.