Alray International Media Watch section is a daily press tour through selected international websites and newspapers, particularly the Israeli ones.
This section is prepared by Alray Palestinian Media Agency to update its viewers with the most Palestinian top news in the international press.
Yedioth Ahronoth:
The leader of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, Sheikh Raed Salah, was arrested early Tuesday morning on suspicion of inciting “terrorism”. Further details
Talia Friedman, 23, daughter of US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, officially immigrated to Israel on Tuesday morning, together with 232 other new Israeli citizens. Further details
Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 22, the cousin of the 16-year-old boy of the same name who was murdered in 2014 by Jewish extremists, and two other residents of the Shuafat neighborhood in east Jerusalem were charged Monday with planning attacks against Israeli security forces. Further details
Exactly a month after three Israeli Arabs brought firearms into the Temple Mount complex and gunned down two Israeli patrolmen, three Palestinian children were filmed play-shooting toy guns at Israeli policemen. Further details
A major public outcry broke out last week after Palestinian Authority security forces detained five journalists working for Hamas-affiliated media outlets, including Al-Quds TV, while several other journalists were detained for questioning and asked about their recent social media posts. Further details
The Jerusalem Post:
Among Israel's newest citizens, US envoy to Israel David Friedman’s daughter Talia who arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning alongside 232Jewish-Americans eager to build a new life in Israel. Further details
Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the outlawed Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch, was arrested Tuesday morning by police and the Shin Bet in his northern Israel home for supporting “terror”. Further details
UNRWA announced Monday that it had sealed a Hamas tunnel it found two months ago that the terrorist group had built under two of its school in the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Further details
A special flight carrying 233 new immigrants from North America landed in Israel's Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday morning. Further details
The Palestinian leadership is considering turning to international institutions including the UN afresh, if US President Donald Trump’s administration fails to revive a “serious” peace process, Fatah Central Committee member Azzam al-Ahmad said on Monday. Further details
A four-year-old boy from Gaza is able to walk after undergoing complex surgery at Hadassah-University Medical Center, in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem, to remove a tumor from his chest. Further details
Water flowed for the first time through a new 13-km. pipeline in the “Samaria region” of the West Bank, inaugurated on Monday to alleviate West Bank water shortage. Further details
The PLO Executive Committee called on US President Donald Trump’s administration to endorse the two-state solution and ask Israel to halt settlement building, days after the White House announced a team of envoys including senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories in the coming days. Further details
Arab legislators and rights groups are concerned that Interior Minister Arye Deri’s expressed desire to strip the citizenship of fugitive former MK Azmi Bishara will lead to further revocations of the citizenship of Israeli Arabs. Further details
The Times of Israel:
Islamic cleric Raed Salah, who heads the banned Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, was arrested late Monday following a raid on his home in the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm. Further details
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Tuesday morning greeted his daughter Talia as she officially became an Israeli citizen at Ben Gurion Airport. Further details
A group of Palestinians threw rocks at an IDF soldier, lightly wounding him, during an early Monday morning operation in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, near Jericho, the army said. Further details
The Hamas terror group on Monday denied Israeli allegations that it has built attack tunnels entrances under the homes of Gazan civilians, claiming that the Israeli accusation is meant to lay the groundwork for attacks against residential buildings in any future conflict. Further details
The Palestinian Authority decided to release five journalists on Monday after arresting them last week, their lawyer said, a day after political rivals, the terrorist Hamas group, released a PA-linked reporter. Further details
Israel National News:
A joint operation by the Shin Bet internal security agency and Israel Police has revealed a terror financing network operated by the Hamas terrorist organization to reward the families of slain and jailed terrorists, including murderers and kidnappers. Further details
Hamas on Monday denied Israeli allegations that it is burrowing terror tunnels underneath the homes of civilians in Gaza, saying “they are lies and rumors”. Further details
The Palestinian Authority (PA) decided on Monday to release five journalists who were arrested last week, their lawyer said. Further details
Last month, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas approved an order restricting discourse on Palestinian social networks and news sites, and according to his critics, made it possible to imprison any person for reasons of "national unity" or damaging the "social fabric". Further details
Press TV:
Israeli troops have destroyed several Palestinian homes funded by the United Nations in a Bedouin village located in the southern West Bank. Further details
The World Health Organization said Israel has delayed giving permission to about half of Gazans who seek to leave the besieged strip for treatment in Israeli hospitals in May. Further details
