The en bloc resignation of the ANP government comes at a time when the post-war plan for the Gaza Strip is being discussed, including the issue of civilian control of the Palestinian enclave.
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) government tendered its resignation to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayeh announced.
“I made the resignation of the government available to President Mahmoud Abbas last Tuesday, February 20, and today I am presenting it in writing,” the prime minister said at the start of a meeting with the entire ANP government cabinet in Ramallah. occupied West Bank.
Shtayeh explained that this decision comes “in light of the political, security and economic developments related to the aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, and the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank, including the city of East Jerusalem.”
“It comes in light of what our people, our Palestinian cause and our political system are facing: a brutal and unprecedented attack, genocide, attempted forced displacement, famine in Gaza, intensification of colonialism, settler terrorism and repeated invasions of fields and villages in Jerusalem. and the West Bank,” lamented the still prime minister.
The en bloc resignation of the ANP government comes at a time when the post-war plan for the Gaza Strip is being discussed, with the question of which entity will take over civilian control of the Palestinian enclave, while Israel will not agree to the Islamist group. Hamas regains power.
The international community, including the US, is advocating that the ANP – which currently rules small parts of the occupied West Bank – be the entity to assume executive functions in the Gaza Strip when the war ends, after Hamas ousted them in 2007 ; although Israel has been reluctant.
Source: EITB
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