Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh chairs a cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP
"I submit the government's resignation to Mr. President (Mahmud Abbas)," Shtayyeh said, adding it comes in the wake of the "developments related to the aggression against the Gaza Strip and the escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem."
PM Shtayyeh called for "new governmental and political measures" amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
"The next stage and its challenges require new governmental and political measures that take into account the new reality in the Gaza Strip," he said, as he called for inter-Palestinian consensus and the "extension of the (Palestinian) Authority's rule over the entire land of Palestine."
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