JENIN, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday paid a visit to Jenin refugee camp where he offered his condolences to the families of the Palestinians recently killed by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and told them that the blood of their sons will not be in vain.
“We know with certainty that this occupation does not want peace, the occupation that every day bankrolls its electoral campaign with Palestinian blood,” Shtayyeh told the families of the physician Abdullah Abu al-Tin and Matin Fayek Dbaya, both killed during an Israeli army raid on Jenin on Friday, and Mohammad Maher Turkman, who died in an Israeli hospital several weeks after he was shot and critically wounded by Israeli soldiers in the Jordan Valley.
“The Palestinian blood is not cheap to bankroll an election campaign for the occupation, but our lives are cheap when the homeland is the address.”
The Prime Minister said that since the beginning of this year, more than 170 Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers, and the number of freedom fighters incarcerated in Israeli prisons has exceeded 5,600.
“While this world is looking with one eye at Ukraine, it does not look with two eyes at Palestine. This world does not want to see the truth, but rather ignores it,” he added, stressing that President Mahmoud Abbas brought up the issue of the Palestinian martyrs and prisoners in Israeli jails during his last speech at the United Nations.
“We say to the families of the martyrs that we are committed to ending the occupation, establishing the independent Palestinian state, freeing the prisoners, and returning (to the homeland). The compass of the Palestinian struggle will continue to point to Jerusalem, the capital of our state,” said Shtayyeh.
“From the camp of sacrifices, Jenin (refugee) camp, we say that the blood of the martyrs will not be in vain, and the darkness of the prisons that our prisoners pay for will not be in vain. This struggle is a cumulative process of generation after generation and sacrifices behind sacrifices. Jenin has embodied the national unity on the ground.”
Source: Palestine News & Info Agency