Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Monday, February 26 announced the resignation of his government which rules parts of the occupied West Bank. "I submit the government's resignation to Mr. President," Shtayyeh said, adding it comes in the wake of the "developments related to the aggression against the Gaza Strip and the escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem".
Shtayyeh also called for "new governmental and political measures" amid the ongoing war: "The next stage and its challenges require new governmental and political measures that take into account the new reality in the Gaza Strip," he said, as he called for inter-Palestinian consensus and the "extension of the (Palestinian) Authority's rule over the entire land of Palestine".