The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammad Shtayyeh, requested the Israeli authorities to permit the inhabitants piled up within the south of the Gaza Strip to return to their properties additional north.
Talking on the Munich Safety Convention, Shtayyeh issued a warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to not attempt to power Palestinians throughout the border into Egypt.
“We all know, and we all know, that it has been an Israeli program to push individuals out of Gaza. We and the Egyptians have labored laborious to not permit this to occur,” he mentioned.
“Egypt is not going to permit anybody to cross the border,” Shtayyeh mentioned. There have been reviews within the worldwide press that Egypt has constructed a reception camp on its aspect of the border to accommodate Palestinian refugees.
Shtayyeh additionally mentioned that the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA), which relies in Ramallah within the West Financial institution, doesn’t preserve contacts with Hamas, which has run the Gaza Strip since 2007.
He famous that varied Palestinian teams, together with Fatah and Hamas, will meet in Moscow on Thursday on the invitation of Russia.
The PA prime minister described the state of affairs after the October 7 assaults as a disaster for everybody, however famous that the historical past of Palestinian struggling had begun in 1948.
Shtayyeh mentioned the PA authorities doesn’t intention to kill civilians, and known as for breaking the spiral of violence. The Palestinian query needed to be resolved, and now was the time to try this, he mentioned.
