Item index page

Shtayyeh: “Everyone in Israel is seeking to increase their popularity at the expense of our people’s blood”

PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: "Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, and that this occupied land will be liberated, as the historical right is ours, Jerusalem is ours, and Palestine is ours"

Prime Minister Shtayyeh says paying terror salaries is simply "fulfilling our duty to the orphan children of the Martyrs and the prisoners and their families, who need all aid from us" so the PA should not be labelled as terror supporters

Prime Minister Shtayyeh speaks out against the "unbearable" Negev Summit peace process, renaming it "the Arab normalization meetings" and says that "without the end of the occupation" peace is impossible

Israeli security measures "add to our insistence to continue standing against this Israeli system" says PA Prime Minister, while condemning "unbearable" Negev Summit

As well as blaming Israeli deductions of terror salaries for all the PA's financial difficulties, Prime Minister Shtayyeh spreads libellous claims about Israel to American Envoy, including that "Israel has destroyed" the peace process, while begging the US Statesman to "stop the Israeli measures against our people"

PA Minister and PM: "This year we came to the AU especially to ask these states to adopt the Palestinian position and not be deceived because Israel is an apartheid state, a state of racial segregation, and commits oppression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes"

Claiming Israel "practices discrimination, persecution and racism," PM Shtayyeh "called on all countries to end support for the apartheid state and impose sanctions against it like those imposed on apartheid South Africa"

Prime Minister Shtayyeh baselessly accuses Israel of numerous "crimes" and warns that Israel will fall and give way to a Palestinian state

PA prime minister reveals European states and UN are providing funding for various projects, including 3 million euros “to strengthen the resolve of our people in Area C”

“Whoever cannot punish Israel can at least help Palestine,” Shtayyeh tells obliging Norwegian Parliament, calling for “realization of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return”

PA Prime Minister says "Israel must pay" for their "aggressive" and "unacceptable" plan to provide any building permits for Jewish homes

PA calls the court ruling allowing Jews to pray silently at the holiest site in Judaism "a war crime, constituting outrageous aggression against the Al-Aqsa Mosque and a true declaration of war against the Palestinian people"

Shtayyeh admits that the PLO gets all their money from the PA, and claims that Israeli loan of $150 million is "money we are entitled to," while comparing "just" $30 million of aid from the world bank with $140 million from the EU

Calling Israel’s defensive actions in Gaza in response to Hamas rocket barrages “a genocide being broadcast live,” PA Prime Minister spreads libel that Israel is "destroying homes on top of residents – women, children, and elderly"

Prime Minister Shtayyeh thanks Europe for copious financial donations, and states that "there remains a deficit of $730 million in the PA general budget, but this aid money has been allocated to projects and not to aiding the budget”

"The number of Palestinians in historical Palestine exceeds the number of Jewish Israelis by more than 250,000 people" says PA Prime Minister, warning that "the time has come for Israel to choose" how to proceed with this demographic

As Sudan signs peace agreement with Israel, PM Shtayyeh says "Arab normalization with Israel is tantamount to ‘the downfall of the century'" and claims that normalization adds "weapons to the Israeli arsenal which is filling up with new ammunition to kill our people"

Prime Minister Shtayyeh says that "there is no serious peace partner in Israel" because Israel "profits" from their "occupation of Palestine" and therefore Saudi Arabia's condemnation of the Palestinian leadership's dealings with Israel are "unjust"

"It is impossible that some of the Arabs will be allies of the satan of occupation."

"There is a mutual conveying of messages"

"The Israeli businesses exploit the period of the holidays in order to empty their warehouses of old products, or even those that will soon pass their expiration dates"

Official PA TV News, on PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh meeting with the leadership council of Wadi Al-Hummus where Israel recently demolished illegal buildings – see note below Official PA TV newsreader: “Palestinian [PA] Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: ‘Israel no longer respects any signed...”

"How it is possible to agree to this deal, while the steps [Trump] has implemented on the ground are worse than the expected phrasing of the deal of the century?"

“Shtayyeh: The Manama [in Bahrain] Conference will be stillborn”