The Palestinian Arabic dailies focused on Tuesday on a plan recently approved by the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem, to construct 82 housing units in Ramat Shlomo settlement, north of Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, al-Quds said five Jordanian intelligence officers were killed in an attack on a security office outside al-Baqa’a refugee camp near Amman on Monday morning.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said President Mahmoud Abbas phone-called King Abdullah II of Jordan, and offered him condolences on the killing of the five intelligence personnel.
Al-Quds said that, according to a poll conducted by Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, 75% of the daily’s readers support the Arab Peace Initiative.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida said that Israeli forces have demolished European Union-funded projects in the West Bank, estimated at 56 million Euros.
Al-Quds said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted he had received a donation of nearly $200,000 from a French Jewish businessman, who is currently standing trial for graft in France.