Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced Monday the resignation of his cabinet, which governs sections of the occupied West Bank.
“I submit the government’s resignation to Mr President (Mahmud Abbas),” Shtayyeh said, adding that it comes in the aftermath of “developments related to the aggression against the Gaza Strip and the escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem”.
He also called for “new governmental and political measures” to address the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip.
“The next stage and its challenges require new governmental and political measures that take into account the new reality in the Gaza Strip,” he added, calling for inter-Palestinian consensus and the “extension of the (Palestinian) Authority’s rule over the entire land of Palestine”.
Shtayyeh’s remarks come as the United States increases pressure on Abbas to disband the Palestinian Authority and begin work on a political framework capable of governing a Palestinian state after the war.