PALESTINE
Mon 15 May 2023 7:21 pm - Jerusalem Time
The Council of Ministers approves the electric tariff for the year 2023
Today, Monday, the Council of Ministers approved the electric tariff for the year 2023, and the provision of government support for the tariff at a value of 170 million shekels.
In its weekly session held in the city of Ramallah, headed by Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, the Council approved the completion of the referral of bids for projects related to the Ministry of Education, and the project of transferring the main water lines feeding the towns of Arraba and Anza in Jenin Governorate.
He referred a number of government department employees to early retirement at their request, and a number of legislations for study by the competent authorities.
The Council of Ministers discussed a number of issues related to the challenges facing education in remote areas, and work to provide all the requirements for steadfastness for the people of those communities and provide education for their children.
The Council also discussed a report submitted by the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Fadi Al-Hadmi, on the reality and conditions of the industrial school of the Arab Orphan School in the occupied city of Jerusalem, and ways to preserve it and ensure its continued provision of education to its students.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh had demanded, in his speech at the beginning of the session - which was devoted to talking about the Nakba and the right of our people to return - the United Nations to stop excluding Israel from the application of international law and international humanitarian law, not to allow the perpetrators to go unpunished, and to work to lift the historical injustice that The Nakba inflicted on our people.
He added, "The Nakba is a crime spanning 75 years, and our people are still paying the bill of aggression with their blood and living flesh, and we are continuing the struggle to recover their rights, and to thwart the Zionist, colonial, expansionist project."
He said, "Our people continue to offer martyrs and blood throughout the homeland, in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and in the Gaza Strip," referring to the victims of the recent barbaric Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which left 33 martyrs, including children, women, and the elderly, and hundreds of wounded and homeless, who were demolished. their homes, and lost their homes.
And he continued: "On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, our people proved that even if the adults died, the young are not forgotten, and after 75 years of the Nakba, we still believe and fight for the right of return. Return is an inherent right of our refugee people in all parts of the earth."
The Prime Minister called for the awakening of the global conscience, and for starting to lift the historical injustice inflicted by the Zionist movement and the international system on the Palestinian people, adding: "In the words of 14 million Palestinians, we say that we have been subjected to the largest massacre, the largest grievance, and the largest theft and expropriation of property and property."
He pointed out that the United Nations had established a database for the property of Palestinian refugees, detailing the dispossession suffered by the Palestinian people, and documenting the property of every Palestinian. Copies of this database are available in some countries, but the original copy is deposited with the United Nations.
The Prime Minister addressed the world by saying: "No right has been lost behind it are demands, and every Palestinian has the right to demand verification of his property, and to file lawsuits before international courts to restore his rights, while continuing our struggle to realize the collective right of our people wherever they are."
He demanded the unification of all forces of liberation, justice, peace and equality in Palestine and in the world to confront colonialism, settlement, exploitation, injustice and racial discrimination wherever it may be.
He called on states, governments, international bodies and courts to stop excluding Israel from applying international and humanitarian law, calling for it to be held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity that it continues to commit against the Palestinian people for the eighth consecutive decade.
He stressed that "our great people are struggling to end the occupation and to embody the Palestinian state with sovereignty over its capabilities, contiguous viable parties, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the right of return for refugees."
The Prime Minister said: "From here, in Palestine, we stand united for Palestine and the souls of the martyrs, prisoners and wounded, Jerusalem, Palestine and return."
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The Council of Ministers approves the electric tariff for the year 2023