The Council of Ministers decided to consider next Sunday 4-16-2023 an official holiday on the occasion of the glorious Easter holiday , and to instruct the Ministry of Education to do everything necessary within the framework of the law to ensure the progress of the educational process.

The council also decided, at the end of its weekly session, today, Monday, to allocate a number of government plots of land for the benefit of government agencies to establish development and service projects for citizens, and to approve a number of school and advisory construction projects for the Ministry of Education and the Energy and Natural Resources Authority, and to approve a number of financing requests for companies. nonprofit and on recommendations relating to crushers and quarries.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh held the Israeli government fully responsible for all the escalation that is taking place in the region, calling on the world to hold it accountable for its repeated daily crimes, the latest of which was the aggression against Al-Aqsa and the march of Israeli ministers and members of the Knesset in support of settlement, invasions and programmed killing. The victims of these crimes were the martyrdom of the child Muhammad Fayez Bilhan, who died during the occupation forces' storming of Aqabat Jabr camp this morning.

In his speech at the beginning of the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers, which was held in the city of Ramallah, today, Monday, the Prime Minister stressed that "the attack on worshipers and those in i'tikaaf and the desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque must not go unpunished."

Shtayyeh saluted our steadfast people in Jerusalem and the defenders of the sanctities, stressing that the intense presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque is the guarantee of preventing the temporal and spatial division that Israel seeks to perpetuate.

Shtayyeh, on behalf of the Council of Ministers, congratulated our people celebrating Easter, Palm Sunday and the upcoming Holy Saturday.

He said: "These occasions and holidays are the embodiment of the spirit of faith, sacrifice, love and sincerity, and the spirit of hope, and that our people who are now walking on the path of pain will inevitably reach the path of freedom and salvation from occupation and its colonial tools, and together for the sake of return, the state and Jerusalem, this Jerusalem is ours and the mosque is ours." And the Church is ours."

He added, "The crimes and violations committed by the occupying power are contrary to international laws, human values, morals, and religions, and these are among their customs, policies, and practices."

The Prime Minister renewed his demand for teachers to return to work, stressing that the government will work within the framework of its legal powers in order to complete the educational process, in order to preserve the future of our students.

He said: "Yesterday and today, about 3,000 male and female teachers returned to work, since the government responded positively to the teachers' demands, which were conveyed by the brothers in the Fatah movement, the factions, and public figures, and we responded to these demands despite the stifling financial crisis we are living through, and we provided everything possible." To solve the crisis, we accepted to install a 15% bonus on the salary slip.

The Prime Minister expressed his hope that "the financial crisis will have ended by the end of the year, enabling us to complete the disbursement of dues, allowances, etc., and we will continue our struggle to obtain all our rights, including financial ones, and to stop the unfair deductions made by the occupying power."