Shtayyeh says Israel challenges world with crimes and violations

RAMALLAH: The Prime Minister of the caretaker government Mohammad Shtayyeh said that Israel challenges the world with its crimes and violations of international norms and laws, and the world must challenge it and deliver aid to Gaza against its will, stop supplying weapons to it, and consider it a rogue state against international law, and hold it accountable for that. In his speech at the beginning of the caretaker government meeting today in Ramallah, Shtayyeh stressed the necessity of forcing Israel to reconnect water and electricity, which Israel cut off from Gaza, and whose interruption was not the result of destruction or malfunction in equipment and infrastructure. "Israel must allow the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes, allow international institutions to work throughout the Gaza Strip, especially in the north, and allow aid to be delivered through United Nations institutions and relevant parties," he said, saluting tribal leaders in the Gaza Strip who refused to coopera te with the occupation forces. Shtayyeh renewed his call to the International Federation of Journalists to begin an organized campaign to allow the entry of international journalists to cover what is happening in Gaza, praising the effort of the Palestinian and Arab media that works day and night to convey the image of crimes and suffering there. "This official silence is no longer acceptable. It is no longer acceptable to be satisfied with tours at the United Nations, which the United States thwarts with the veto. Those being killed in Gaza are not numbers but children, and the countries that support Israel and deal with it must feel ashamed of its positions," he stressed. Shtayyeh pointed out that Israel kills those who try to avoid death from starvation, adding that this is what happened when the occupation forces killed 118 civilians who were waiting for food aid on Al-Rashid Street, northwest of Gaza. "What does withholding milk from infants mean other than exposing them to starvation?," he wondered, pointing out that mothers are unable to breastfeed their children, saying that they're also on the verge of starvation, adding that the children are homeless, in cold, hunger, and thirst, and diseases from malnutrition and hunger have begun to kill them. "The Israeli government is nothing but a group of killers that practices systematic criminality, murder, and revenge. How can infant formula serve a political faction, as Israel claims?," Shtayyed said. The Cabinet also discusses the developments in Gaza and the West Bank, the spatial plan for the lands of the State of Palestine, and arrangements for the holy month of Ramadan. Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA