The en bloc resignation of the ANP government comes at a time when the post-war plan for the Gaza Strip is being discussed, with the question of civilian control of the Palestinian enclave. The international community is betting on the ANP, although Israel is reluctant.
The Government of the Palestinian National Authority (ANP) submitted its resignation to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this Monday, Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayeh announced.
“I put the resignation of the government at the disposal of President Mahmoud Abbas last Tuesday, February 20, and today I present it in writing,” said the prime minister at the beginning of a meeting with the entire ANP government cabinet in Ramallah. , occupied West Bank.
Shtayeh explained that this decision comes “in light of the political, security and economic developments related to the aggression against our people in the Gaza Stripand the unprecedented escalation in West Bankincluding the city of East Jerusalem“.
“It comes in light of what our people, our Palestinian cause and our political system face: a ferocious and unprecedented attack, a genocide, attempted forced displacement, famine in Gaza, intensification of colonialism, settler terrorism and repeated invasions of fields and villages in Jerusalem and the West Bank,” lamented the still prime minister.
The en bloc resignation of the ANP government comes at a time when the postwar plan for the Gaza Stripwith the question of which entity will assume civilian control of the Palestinian enclave, where Israel will not allow the Islamist group Hamas to regain power.
The international community, including the US, advocates that the ANP – which currently governs small areas of the occupied West Bank – be the entity that assumes executive functions in the Gaza Strip when the war ends, after Hamas expelled them. in 2007; although Israel has been reluctant.
Source: Eitb
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