Ramallah, August 24, 2026 (WAFA) – Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa briefed Cabinet members on political contacts and international efforts to halt the crimes of the occupation and terrorist colonists' gangs and provide international protection for the Palestinian people.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet, during its weekly session today, warned of the sharp and rapid deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip amid severe shortages of aid and continued restrictions on its entry. According to a United Nations report, about four in five families are experiencing critical or catastrophic levels of hunger, while only one-fifth of the daily aid needs is being allowed into the Gaza Strip, exacerbating the food and shelter crisis and threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
The Cabinet called on the international community to assume its responsibilities by ensuring the entry of sufficient quantities of aid without restrictions, securing shelter and basic necessities, protecting civilians, and preventing the humanitarian catastrophe from worsening.
The Cabinet also called for further international measures against the occupation authorities to halt the implementation of the E1 colonial project, which has moved beyond the announcement stage to the actual launch of a tender for the construction of 1,234 colonial housing units east of occupied Jerusalem.
It said the move represents a dangerous escalation aimed at isolating Jerusalem, fragmenting the territorial unity of the occupied Palestinian Territory, and undermining the two-state solution.
In this context, the Cabinet, according to a statement issued by the Government Communication Center, warned of the escalation of crimes committed by terrorist colonists' gangs across the governorates, with the protection and participation of occupation forces, with more than 470 attacks recorded in the past week alone, coinciding with an escalation in demolition operations by occupation forces that targeted more than 36 Palestinian structures and homes across the governorates.
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