Mohammed shtayyeh

Mahmoud Abbas appoints new Palestinian Authority prime minister

The Palestinian Authority, set up three decades ago under the interim peace agreement known as the Oslo Accords, exercises governance over parts of the West Bank.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints Mohammad Mustafa as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), in Ramallah, in the West Bank March 14, 2024
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY president Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh

A 'revitalized' PA can't be the same policies with a new public face - editorial

To revitalize and revamp the PA, much more will be needed than to merely replace the prime minister, who – in any event – plays second fiddle to the president, a man who essentially rules by decree.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 18, 2024.

Netanyahu calls PA gov’t resignation ‘chair shuffling,’ downplays impact

“They [the PA] have not had an election... for 17 years, so they are just shuffling chairs,” Netanyahu told Fox & Friends on Monday.

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY president Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh

Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh resigns from position

Shtayyeh, a member of ruling party Fatah's Central Committee, has been Palestinian prime minister since 2019.

|ByALEX WINSTON

Shtayyeh: Palestinians will soon receive 50,000 coronavirus vaccines

Palestinian Authority government will supply Gaza with doses

FEBRUARY 4, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks before the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Ramallah, West Bank May 11, 2020

Shtayyeh: Israel must allow Jerusalem Arabs to participate in elections

The PA will also ask the European Union to send observers to monitor the elections, Shtayyeh added.

JANUARY 18, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in Ramallah. August 25, 2020

Palestinians to receive Russian COVID-19 vaccine within month

The RDIF said that the PA’s Health Ministry approved the vaccine for use in the territories.

JANUARY 11, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH, MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A Palestinian man is helped by his son as he receives a vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as Israel continues its national vaccination drive, in east Jerusalem December 23, 2020

Deputy A-G to Amir Ohana: Convicts, terrorists must receive vaccination

Amit Marari stressed that all convicts, including terrorists must receive the coronavirus vaccine.

JANUARY 9, 2021ByTOBIAS SIEGAL, KHALED ABU TOAMEH
INMATES WALK through the Hermon Prison in northern Israel last week.

PA announces alarming coronavirus infection rates in the West Bank

While Hamas has been managing to maintain low coronavirus infection rates in Gaza, the West Bank is experiencing an alarming rise in new infections in recent weeks.

JULY 19, 2020ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
A member of medical staff swaps a Palestinian worker for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing, upon his return from Israel, outside the Israeli-controlled Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 26, 2020

PA announces aid package to Palestinians in Jordan Valley

After the meeting, the Palestinians held a rally to protest the annexation plan, the second of its kind this week.

JUNE 25, 2020ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Senior Fatah official Mohammed Shtayyeh gestures during a Palestinian leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the West Bank February 20, 2019

'Dramatic' announcement brings Abbas back into the limelight

Alarmed by Shtayyeh’s growing stardom, Abbas’s associates have in recent weeks made a big effort to bring the 84-year-old Palestinian leader back to center stage.

MAY 25, 2020ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the West Bank May 19, 2020

Stop annexation by sanctioning Israel, Palestinian PM tells UN

“Israel does not want two states; Israel does not want one state. All Israel wants is to annex,” Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said on Monday.

MAY 20, 2020ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks before the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Ramallah, West Bank May 11, 2020

Mohammed Shtayyeh: Israel limiting our control over coronavirus

Second Palestinian dies in pandemic

APRIL 11, 2020ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh gestures during an interview with Reuters in his office in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 27, 2019

Shtayyeh calls for release of Palestinian prisoners amid coronavirus fears

We will send a message to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to ask them to work to release the prisoners and ensure that the Israeli Prisoner Service maintains public safety measure

MARCH 14, 2020ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh gestures during an interview with Reuters in his office in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 27, 2019