Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said that the aggression against our people cannot produce peace for Israel or reassurance for the Israelis, and that the way out of the cascade of blood is to stop the aggression against our people first, and create a political horizon based on United Nations resolutions, international law, and the Arab Peace Initiative.

Shtayyeh added in his speech at the beginning of the government meeting today, Monday, in Ramallah, “For a long time, we have been telling the world that the Israeli government’s policy will lead to the detonation of the situation in the Palestinian territories, whether that is in Gaza, Jerusalem, or the rest of the Palestinian territories.”

He continued: The day before yesterday, we saw it explode in the Gaza Strip. These events and their consequences are the product of the Israeli government’s policy, which practices the ugliest forms of aggression and murder, seizing lands, and attacking holy sites, and the terrorism of the colonialists and their heinous practices that accompany them.

The Prime Minister stressed that Israel is a state of aggression and occupation, and our people have the right to defend themselves, and we have made that clear to all those who only see with one eye.

Shtayyeh indicated that President Mahmoud Abbas is conducting a regional and international movement through contacts with world leaders, whose goal is to stop the aggression against our people, stressing that the government is fully prepared to work to alleviate the suffering of our people, and will provide all possible assistance to our people in the form of medicines and other sectors.

Due to the closure of the crossings, the Prime Minister explained that communication was made with our embassy in Cairo and the brothers of the Egyptian leadership to bring in aid through the Rafah crossing, and communication was also made with the World Health Organization and UNICEF to deliver medical aid through them as well, and yesterday the door for blood donations was opened through Specialized centers in hospitals in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

He pointed out that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is following up with our embassies around the world to explain and clarify the details of the aggression and the Palestinian position, and to mobilize public opinion to curb the Israeli aggression, noting that there are massacres being committed and entire families being exterminated, and this morning UNRWA schools were bombed, and this is a very dangerous indicator.

He stressed that our Palestinian people are one, wherever they are and wherever they are, we are united by pain and united by suffering, and this pain and suffering must end, and our sovereign state on earth, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of refugees must be embodied.

Today, the Council of Ministers discusses: the situation in the Gaza Strip, and providing the necessary and possible needs through the relevant ministries and institutions.