Day: 3 March 2024

RAMALLAH: The Prime Minister of the Caretaker Government, Mohammad Shtayyeh, met on Sunday, with a delegation of members of the US Congress, which included Senator Cory Booker and Senator Michael Bennett, in his office in Ramallah.

The Prime Minister retrieated calls on the United States to support an immediate ceasefire, work to open the crossings in order to bring relief aid into Gaza, and provide basic services in a manner that responds to the humanitarian crisis.

He said that the US’ use of its veto power several times to prevent a resolution supporting the Gaza ceasefire in the Security Council encourages Israel to shed more blood under international cover.

Shtayyeh called on the US not to use the ‘veto’ against the Palestinian request for full membership in the United Nations, calling on the US, too, for bilateral recognition of Palestine as a state, and for the recognition to be the beginning of a political solution and not the result of an insecure political process, “because there is no partner in
Israel.”

“The Gaza Strip is facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe due to the Israeli aggression, and it needs a Marshall Plan that includes relief, reconstruction, and economic recovery as soon as the aggression stops,” he said.

He also called on the US to refund UNRWA, which contributes to relief for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, at a time when Israel is practicing all forms of genocide through killing, starvation and destruction.

Shtayyeh briefed the delegation on the Israeli attacks on the West Bank, which also suffers from Israeli aggression and settler terrorism, stressing that reviving the Palestinoian Authority means enabling it to carry out its role and strengthening the steadfastness of Palestinian people.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

HEBRON: Armed colonists Sunday chased farmers and shepherds, attacked their herds, and prevented them from reaching fields and pastures in several areas east of Yatta and Al-Musafer, south of Hebron.

Local sources told WAFA that a group of armed colonists attacked shepherds and farmers in the village of Amnezel, east of Yatta, assaulted their herds and prevented them from reaching pastures.

In Wadi Al-Gawaya, armed colonists from the ‘Tzkhar Man’ colony, which was established on citizens’ lands, violently attacked a group of children while they were harvesting Gundelia plant, and chased them over long distances.

Colonists from the ‘Maon and Karmiel’ colonies also destroyed agricultural crops, and released their herds of livestock into the fields of citizens from the Makhamra and Hamamda families, in Maghayir Al-Ubaid and Fateh Sidro, and prevented them from reaching them.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, on Sunday issued decrees appointing three new governors in West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, and Jenin.

The President decided to appoint Khaled Abdel Aziz Taha Dudin as Governor of Hebron, Ghassan Mohammad Bakr Daghlas as Governor of Nablus, and Kamal Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Al-Rub as Governor of Jenin, provided that President Abbas would set a date for the three new governors to take the legal oath before him.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: Israeli occupation forces committed a new massacre against Palestinian citizens at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, medical sources said on Sunday evening.

They said that the occupation forces opened fire on citizens at the Kuwait roundabout while they were waiting for aid trucks loaded with flour, killing and injuring dozens.

The sources added that the occupation forces are carrying out systematic genocide crimes targeting hungry stomachs in northern Gaza.

Earlier today, occupation warplanes bombed a small truck carrying humanitarian aid in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, killing eight citizens and wounding others.

Last Thursday, the occupation forces and military tanks stationed on Harun al-Rashid coastal road, west of Gaza City, opened fire on thousands of citizens near the Nabulsi roundabout, northwest of Gaza City, who were waiting for trucks loaded with humanitarian aid to arrive, killing 117 citizens and injuring hundreds.

Yesterday, the occupation forces also targeted a group of
citizens who were waiting for the arrival of humanitarian aid near al-Nabulsi roundabout, killing one citizen and injuring 26 others.

The Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to ongoing Israeli aggression on land, sea and air for 149 days, has been living in extremely difficult humanitarian conditions, amounting to famine.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA