Israeli civilian and military officials have said their plan for the end of the Gaza war is some form of transitional authority, perhaps involving Arab states, leading to the restoration of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was ousted from Gaza in a 2007 Hamas coup.
But Mohammad Shtayyeh, who has been prime minister since 2019, said the PA would not cooperate without a return to a peace process resulting in two sovereign states.
"To have the Palestinian Authority go to Gaza and run the affairs of Gaza without a political solution for the West Bank, as if this Palestinian Authority is going aboard an F-16 or an Israeli tank?" Shtayyeh said. "I don't accept it. Our president [Mahmoud Abbas] does not accept it.
None of us will accept it." "I think what we need is a comprehensive peaceful vision," the prime minister said in an interview in his office in Ramallah, on the West Bank.
"The West Bank needs a solution, and then link Gaza to it within the framework of a two-state solution." The first priority, Shtayyeh said, was to stop the bombing of Gaza, as well as violence on the West Bank, in which he said 110 Palestinian had been killed over the past three weeks by Israeli security forces and settlers.
The Gaza health ministry has said that the death toll there has topped 8,000. The ministry is run by Hamas, and Joe Biden has questioned the accuracy of its figures, but Shtayyeh said that the toll had been verified with names and identity numbers.
About 1,400 Israelis were killed by the Hamas raid on settlements near the Gaza border, and more than 220 were taken hostage and are being held within the besieged coastal strip.
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