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NY Post
New York Post
26 Feb 2024


NextImg:Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh resigns, pushes ‘urgent need for inter-Palestinian consensus’

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday he was resigning to allow for the formation of a broad consensus among Palestinians about political arrangements following Israel’s war against the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

The move comes amid growing US pressure on President Mahmoud Abbas to shake up the Palestinian Authority as international efforts have intensified to stop the fighting in Gaza and begin work on a political structure to govern the enclave after the war.

His resignation must still be accepted by Abbas, who may ask him to stay on as caretaker until a permanent replacement is appointed.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announces his government’s resignation and calls for “new political measures” during a cabinet meeting in Ramallah on Feb. 26, 2024. AFP via Getty Images

In a statement to cabinet, Shtayyeh, an academic economist who took office in 2019, said the next stage would need to take account of the emerging reality in Gaza, which has been laid waste by nearly five months of heavy fighting.

He said the next stage would “require new governmental and political arrangements that take into account the emerging reality in the Gaza Strip, the national unity talks, and the urgent need for an inter-Palestinian consensus.”

In addition, it would require “the extension of the Authority’s authority over the entire land, Palestine.”

A man buries his child, who was killed by overnight Israeli air strikes on the Abu Moammar home, at a cemetery in east Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 26, 2024. AFP via Getty Images

The Palestinian Authority, formed 30 years ago under the interim Oslo peace accords, exercises limited governance over parts of the occupied West Bank but lost power in Gaza following a struggle with Hamas in 2007.

Fatah, the faction that controls the PA, and Hamas have made efforts to reach an agreement over a unity government and are due to meet in Moscow on Wednesday.

A senior Hamas official said the move had to be followed by a broader agreement on governance for the Palestinians.

Palestinian children queue up with their pots and containers waiting to receive food provided by Arab and Palestinian donors in Deir Al Balah town, southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 24, 2024. MOHAMMED SABER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

“The resignation of Shtayyeh’s government only makes sense if it comes within the context of national consensus on arrangements for the next phase,” senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters.

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and says that for security reasons, it will not accept Palestinian Authority rule over Gaza after the war, which broke out following a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, which killed some 1,200 Israelis and foreigners, according to Israeli tallies.

So far, almost 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza fighting, according to Palestinian health authorities, and almost the entire population has been driven from their homes.