Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh expressed “the Palestinian government’s categorical opposition to the settlement work carried out by the Israeli occupying authorities in the occupied city of Jerusalem”, stressing that “the occupying authorities seek to expand their control over the lands of citizens, especially those lands” surrounding the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque “, and continued: “The government will not engage in these actions.”

Shtayyeh pointed out at the beginning of the cabinet meeting, which took place in the city of Ramallah, that “occupational terrorism does not stop committing crimes against our people, since the number of martyrs shot by the occupiers since the beginning of this year has reached 78, including 15 children.” The last of these were the martyr Kamel Alauna from the village of Jaba and the captive martyr Saadia Faraj Allah, who gained notoriety in the Damun Detention Center.

He stated that “the occupying authorities increase the pain of those mourning the loss of their children by detaining their corpses, since it turns out that these corpses are being used in the laboratories of Israeli universities’ medical schools, in gross violation of human rights.” rights, values, principles and scientific ethics”.

And he called on “international universities to boycott Israeli universities involved in the detention of the bodies and to put pressure on the occupying authorities to stop abuse of the bodies of the martyrs and immediately release all of their detained bodies so that their families can say goodbye to them.” in a way that suits them and respects their feelings.”

In another context, the Prime Minister pointed out that “the occupying state continues to undermine the foundations of our state by seizing more and more of our lands and trying to extend control to the West Bank”, and explained that “the occupying authorities have seized or expanded, confiscated about 25,000 dunams, uprooted , about 18,000 trees burned or poisoned, 179 wells destroyed or threatened to be demolished, 2,800 dunams (equivalent to 34,000 cubic meters of water) irrigated, about 3,000 dunams destroyed, swept and burned, and 74 Israeli settlements continued to pump sewage and were flooded for about 2021 by planting 6360 fruitful trees.