The resignation of the Palestinian government was submitted today, Monday, by the country’s prime minister, Mohammad Staiyeh, to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, as he announced in an interview.

The Palestinian prime minister announced the resignation of his government, which rules parts of the occupied West Bank, due to what he said was escalating violence in the occupied West Bank and the war in Gaza. He noted that he is stepping down to allow the formation of a broad consensus among Palestinians on political arrangements after Israel’s war against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

“The decision to step down came in light of the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the war, genocide and famine in the Gaza Strip,” Staje said.

“I see that the next stage and its challenges require new governmental and political arrangements that take into account the new reality in Gaza and the need for a Palestinian-Palestinian consensus based on Palestinian unity and the extension of the unity of power in the land of Palestine,” he said. .

Mohammad Staiyeh’s comments come as US pressure mounts on Abbas to shake up the Palestinian Authority and begin working on a political structure capable of governing a post-war Palestinian state.