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Palestinian Authority PM Shtayyeh submits resignation of entire government
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PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks during a townhall meeting at the 60th Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on February 18, 2024. (THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announces the resignation of his government.
“I submit the government’s resignation to Mr. President [Mahmoud Abbas],” Shtayyeh says, adding it comes in the wake of the “developments related to the aggression against the Gaza Strip and the escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem.”
Shtayyeh says he is resigning to allow for the formation of a broad consensus among Palestinians about political arrangements following Israel’s war against Hamas. The move comes amid growing US pressure on Abbas to shake up the PA as international efforts have intensified to stop the fighting in Gaza and begin work on a political structure to govern the enclave after the war.
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