02/27/2024

A New Palestinian Government

Here is what the world knows so far

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and his government tendered their resignations to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, in what many observers regard as the first step towards forming a new technocratic Palestinian administration to govern the Palestinian territories and to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza after Israel’s war to root out Hamas from the besieged enclave comes to an end.

"The decision to resign came in light of the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem and the war, genocide and starvation in the Gaza Strip," Shtayyeh said in his announcement, noting that "the next stage and its challenges require new governmental and political arrangements that take into account the new reality in Gaza and the need for a Palestinian-Palestinian consensus based on Palestinian unity and the extension of unity of authority over the land of Palestine."

President Abbas, who leads the Palestinian Authority which administers certain parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, accepted the resignations and has asked Shtayyeh's government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new government is appointed.

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