Palestinian "Martyrs’ blood shortens the occupation’s life and reveals its racist acts" states PA Prime Minister
The following is an excerpt of a statement by PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh at a PA governmental meeting on May 16, 2022 -Ed.
“The [PA] Prime Minister [Muhammad Shtayyeh] said that the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) was a very important day for the Palestinian people in the homeland and the diaspora, and that this year this day came at a time when the pace of the Israeli attacks and acts of murder is intensifying.
The latest incidents were the deaths as Martyrs of Palestinian media icon Shireen Abu Akleh (see note below -Ed.), the child Thaer Al-Yazouri (i.e., assaulted Israeli soldiers conducting a counter-terror operation in El-Bireh on May 11, 2022), young Walid Al-Sharif (i.e., Arab rioter who threw rocks at Jews at the Western Wall in April 2022 and while escaping fell and wounded himself, later dying of his wounds on May 14, 2022), released prisoner Daoud Zubeidi (i.e., terrorist, shot at Israeli soldiers in Jenin on May 13, 2022, and died of his wounds two days later), and prior to this a group of male and female Martyrs who were murdered without any consideration for the international laws and conventions.
He added: ‘On Nakba Day (see note below -Ed.) this year, the Israeli operations against our people and its sites that are holy to Islam and Christianity – even though they are intensifying – are bringing us closer than ever to realizing our people’s hope for freedom, independence, and establishing the Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem. This is because the Martyrs’ blood shortens the occupation’s life and reveals its racist acts.The assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was tantamount to throwing a large rock into the still waters of the international laws (sic., there is no evidence that Israel killed Abu Akleh, and ample reason to believe indiscriminate fire by Palestinian terrorists killed her).’”