Shtayyeh warned that the waterway would transform from a crossing for the entry of aid into a way out for the displacement of Palestinians (Reuters)
The head of the Palestinian caretaker government, Muhammad Shtayyeh, confirmed on Monday his rejection of the presence of any foreign parties to administer the Gaza Strip, and considered this “a conspiracy that will be failed by the Palestinian people,” warning of the waterway turning from an aid crossing for Gaza into a way out for the displacement of citizens.
Shtayyeh said - in a speech during the government session in Ramallah - that there are those who want self-administration of Gaza, and there are those who are working to bring in private security companies to work in the sector, and he stressed that this represents aggression, and that the Palestinian people who “thwarted all conspiracies will also thwart these attempts.” According to what was reported by the Palestinian News Agency “Wafa”.
The head of the Palestinian caretaker government explained that they called for international protection forces for all Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, under the banner and umbrella of the United Nations, referring to the call on donors to transfer cash sums in order to help the people in the Gaza Strip, and to hold a session “to support the Palestinian National Authority and its components.” So that the next government can work successfully,” he said.
Shtayyeh explained that there are those who want to replace what he called the political system with another system, “and we are knocking on the door of national unity now and not to face the challenges ahead,” saying, “just as we were the pioneers of the Authority’s reform program, we will work to reform all the institutions of the Palestinian people in a way that befits them and their sacrifices.”
Shtayyeh sent a call to the world to take action to stop the suffering of the people of Gaza, “and not to remain alongside Israel, the criminal state.”
He pointed out that "the last call to humanity is from Rafah, the last spot waiting for death. Save Rafah, and save what remains of Gaza," and Shtayyeh stressed that "the occupation has lost all its components and has begun to collapse and is disappearing."
Palestinian factions had previously said that the Israeli occupation's plans to establish a political administration under civilian names to administer Gaza would fail in the face of the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and the resistance.
Shtayyeh's statements today come after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, last Thursday, assigned economist Muhammad Mustafa to form the new Palestinian government, 3 weeks after Shtayyeh resigned from his position.
Last Friday, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Palestinian factions described the efforts to form a new Palestinian government “without national consensus” as deepening the division, and an indication of “the crisis of the Authority’s leadership and the gap between it and the Palestinian people and their aspirations.”
Recently, the official Israeli Broadcasting Authority (KAN) reported that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant proposed that Palestinian Authority Intelligence Chief Majid Faraj take over the administration of Gaza temporarily, after the end of the war.
Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, said in mid-December that the Palestinian Authority is the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and will be prepared to take over the administration of Gaza after the end of the Israeli war on the Strip.
Source: Al Jazeera + Palestinian press