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Palestinian PM Shtayyeh hands resignation to Abbas over Gaza ‘genocide’

Shtayyeh speaking at the 60th Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany earlier this month [Anna Szilagyi/EPA]

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has announced the resignation of his government, which rules parts of the occupied West Bank, due to the escalating violence in the occupied territory and the war on Gaza.

“The decision to resign came in light of the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem and the war, genocide and starvation in the Gaza Strip,” said Shtayyeh, who submitted his resignation to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday.

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