Reports on Israeli Plan to Annex West Bank Focus of Dailies

The three Palestinian Arabic dailies focused on a report by Israeli daily Maariv, which said that a parliamentary vote on annexing the West Bank to Israel will be held soon.

According to Maariv, al-Ayyam daily said, Israel will soon "detonate a political bomb" by declaring the territories it occupied in 1967 as Israeli territories within weeks.

Al-Ayyam said tens of Israeli settlers broke into al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem on Sunday.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida several Palestinians were injured by live Israeli fire during Israeli military incursions in the village of Ni’lin, to the west of Ramallah, and in al-Izza refugee camp near Bethlehem.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said a group of Palestinian lawyers filed a lawsuit at the United States Central Court against individuals in the US who support Israeli settlements in Palestine. The lawyers called for a compensation of $34 billion to Palestinians affected by Israeli settlements.

Source: WAFA