Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed on Monday to the request for the resignation of the Palestinian government submitted by Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh.

Wafa Agency reported that Abbas received Shtayyeh today, where the latter presented the government’s resignation, which was followed by the president issuing a decree accepting it, and the resigned government was assigned to conduct business temporarily, until a new government is formed.

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh announced today, Monday, that he had submitted the government’s written resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas, after he had placed it at his disposal.

Shtayyeh said in a press conference: “This government worked in complex circumstances and faced battles imposed on us, starting with the piracy of funds, then the deal of the century that wanted to end its issue, then the Corona pandemic, and currently the genocide against our people in Gaza and the continuous escalation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”

Last February, informed sources revealed to the Saudi Al-Sharq TV channel that President Abbas was preparing to form a new government, in preparation for the next day of the war on Gaza, whose priority would be Gaza’s security and reconstruction.

A few days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented to the security mini-ministerial council a document of principles related to the “day after” policy for the war in the Gaza Strip.

Source: RT + Palestinian Wafa Agency