PA PM: Israeli leaders kill Palestinians to improve their popularity

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

“Yesterday, Monday, [July 10, 2023, PA] Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh received Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security in the Republic of Singapore Teo Chee Hean in his office in Ramallah…

Shtayyeh reviewed the developments in the situation in Palestine in the shadow of the absence of a political horizon and the continued measures of the extremist government of Israel, its aggression against our people, the increase in the pace of settlement expansion, and the daily and incessant invasions of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Shtayyeh said: ‘Everyone in Israel – politicians, leaders, and ministers – is seeking to increase their popularity at the expense of our people’s blood. They are attempting to export their internal crises through more killing, arrests, invasions, and demolitions against our people.’”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 11, 2023]

Break-in/Invasion/attack of Al-Aqsa Mosque - The PA and its leaders misrepresent all of the Temple Mount as an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Therefore, they vilify any presence of Jews on the mount as an "invasion." It should be noted that Jews who visit the Temple Mount only enter some sections of the open areas, and do not enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock. Israeli police ban Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount because of threats of violence by Palestinians.