Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh today cautioned that the situation in the occupied territories is extremely serious and was heading towards further escalation.
Speaking during a meeting with member of European Parliament (MEP) Nicola Beer at his office in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, Prime Minister Shtayyeh stated that the situation in the occupied territories is particularly serious and was heading towards further escalation following the right-wing Jewish supremacist Israeli government that advocates nothing but more colonial settlement construction, extrajudicial killings, raids and de-Palestinization of the holy sites.
The meeting was attended by European Union Representative to Palestine Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff.
During the meeting, Prime Minister Shtayyeh briefed MEP Beer on the deadly Israeli army incursion that resulted in the killing of eleven Palestinians, including an elderly and a child, and injuring over 100 others by live bullets, six reported in critical to very critical condition, into the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday.
He renewed his call that the European Union (EU) take serious actions in order to safeguard the two-state solution through putting pressure on Israel, the occupying power, to halt all unilateral actions and violations against the Palestinian people as well as to abide by all signed agreements.
He also called on EU member countries to recognize the State of Palestine as a means to confront all Israeli practices sabotaging the two-state solution and actively turn the State of Palestine into reality.
He concluded by reiterating that Israel continue to exhibit a total disregard to international laws and conventions and act as a state above the law, particularly that it has approved the construction of more settler units in colonial settlements just two days after UNSC adopted a presidential statement expressing its deep concern and dismay over its recent announcement of further construction and expansion of colonial settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories, as well as the “legalization” of settlement outposts.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency