Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh submitted his resignation to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, due to the “political, economic and security” situation resulting from the Israeli “aggression” on Gaza and the West Bank.
Shtayyeh said during an interview with the Palestinian Wafa News Agency: “I submitted the resignation of my government to President Mahmoud Abbas.”
He said that the decision comes in light of the political, economic and security developments related to the aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Shtayyeh explained that the Palestinian people and the Palestinian “political system” are facing “a fierce and unprecedented attack, genocide, attempted forced displacement, famine in Gaza, intensification of settler colonialism and terrorism, and repeated incursions into the camps.” [de refugiados] And sites in the West Bank.”
Shtayyeh also referred to “attempts to liquidate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East.” [UNRWA]He rejected all signed agreements and the gradual annexation of Palestinian territories, as well as “efforts to transform the Palestinian Authority into an administrative security authority without political content.”
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