Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa today met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Hanke Bruins-Sloat, during which they both discussed the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, including the need for coordinated efforts for the delivery of essential aid to Gaza.
They further affirmed the need for urgent international intervention to put pressure on Israel to release withheld Palestinian funds and cease the Israeli deductions.
This came during Mustafa’s reception of the Dutch Minister, in his office in Ramallah in the presence of the Palestinian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Farsin Shaheen, and the Dutch Representative to Palestine, Michel Rintenar.
The Prime Minister added, “Israel places obstacles in all aspects of life, deprives us of our financial sources, and imposes sanctions on us with further deductions from clearance funds, under the pretext of paying Gaza Strip allocations and the salaries of Palestinian Authority employees, retirees, and social affairs, which makes the government unable to fulfill its obligations.”
Mustafa pointed out that a donors conference is to be held before the end of this month in Brussels, in order to mobilize financial, political and relief support, in order to confront the difficult financial, economic and political conditions that Israel imposes on the Palestinian people.
For her part, the Dutch Foreign Minister affirmed her efforts to open more crossings with the Gaza Strip in order to enhance relief and humanitarian efforts, bring in more aid, and the need for Israel to release the withheld Palestinian funds.
They also discussed the increase in colonists ‘attacks in the occupied West Bank and the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, including the need for coordinated efforts for the delivery of essential aid to Gaza.
Bruins-Sloat affirmed her country’s rejection of colonial expansion and the surge in colonists` attacks against the Palestinian people and their properties in the occupied West Bank.
Source: WAFA
