Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced Monday that he has submitted his government's resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas.
“I submitted the resignation of the government to President Mahmoud Abbas on February 20, 2024 and today I present it in writing,” Shtayyeh said in a press conference via the Palestinian News and Information Agency.
Abbas has yet to decide whether to accept the resignation of Shtayyeh and his government, but the move signals the willingness of the Western-backed Palestinian leadership to accept a reshuffle that could lead to reforms seen as necessary to revitalize the Palestinian Authority.
The United States seeks a reformed Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza once the war between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorists ends.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced Monday that he has submitted his government's resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP)
The prime minister said this decision “comes in light of political, security and economic developments related to the aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank, including the city of Jerusalem.”
“It arises in light of what the Palestinian people, our Palestinian cause and our political system face: a ferocious and unprecedented attack, genocide, attempted forced displacement, famine in Gaza, intensification of colonialism, terrorism by settlers and repeated invasions of fields, villages and cities in Jerusalem and the West Bank: their reoccupation, unprecedented financial strangulation, attempts to liquidate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees, repudiation of all signed agreements, gradual annexation of Palestinian lands and efforts to make the Palestinian National Authority an administrative security authority without political content,” Shtayyeh said.
“We will continue to confront the occupation and the Palestinian Authority will continue to fight to establish the State on the lands of Palestine,” he added.
Shtayyeh said his government has worked under complicated circumstances, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine and its economic repercussions on the Palestinian people, and the conflict with Israel, which he describes as a genocide against the Palestinian people in Loop.
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Shtayyeh said his government has worked under difficult circumstances, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine and its economic repercussions on the Palestinian people, and the conflict with Israel. (Reuters)
“In the midst of all this, the government was able to achieve a balance between meeting the needs of our people and the demands of providing services worthy of them, such as infrastructure, legislation, reform programs, civil peace, municipal elections, chambers of commerce , etc., and preserve our political and national rights, and protect them, confront the settlements, support the areas of confrontation and Area C, and internationalize the conflict with the occupation,” he said.
The prime minister added that five years have passed since the formation of his government and that it is a “political and professional government that includes a number of political partners and independents, including five ministers from Gaza.”
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Shtayyeh concluded by explaining the reason for his resignation.
“Accordingly, I see that the next stage and its challenges require new governmental and political arrangements that take into account the emerging reality in the Gaza Strip, the national unity talks and the urgent need for an inter-Palestinian consensus based on a national basis. , broad participation, unity of ranks and the extension of the sovereignty of the Palestinian Authority over the entire land of Palestine,” he said.
