Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh stressed the importance of international solidarity visits with the aim of supporting our people and our cause, and creating more partnerships and twinning projects between the Palestinian local government bodies and their counterparts in the countries of the world.

This came during his reception, today, Monday, in his office in the city of Ramallah, a delegation of French local authorities that have twinning relations with their Palestinian counterparts, participating in the activities of the Fifth Conference on Palestinian-French decentralized cooperation held in Ramallah, in the presence of the French Consul General, Rene Trokaz, and the Governor of Jenin Akram Rajoub, and the Palestinian Ambassador to France, Hala Abu Hasira.

The Prime Minister stressed these visits to Palestine in order to witness the facts and conditions on the ground, "The Israeli practices and measures towards our people amount to apartheid, according to what was mentioned by many reports of international institutions recently."

He praised the joint cooperation between France and Palestine, noting that all forms of French support for Palestine are consistent with the Palestinian national priorities, and that the French local bodies are among the first to establish twinning relations with their Palestinian counterparts.

The prime minister called on French local authorities and the French people to urge decision-makers in France to recognize the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital.

Shtayyeh said: "Today we are facing a new regime in Israel based on more measures towards our people, by changing the rules of fire, as the occupation forces have killed approximately 110 of our people since the beginning of the year, and storm daily into Palestinian areas and holy sites, and continue to detain corpses." The martyrs are in refrigerators and tombs of numbers.