An-Najah News - During a virtual meeting with over 40 donor countries and international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Quartet office, presided by Norway, Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, urged donor countries and international organizations to take serious measures towards boycotting Israeli settlements and to not only settle for labeling settlement products.

He stressed that the status quo imposed by Israel is deteriorating; as the Palestinian land is shrinking.

The settlers' violence is escalating, and access to resources is decreasing daily.

Shtayyeh said that: “Economic development is not separate from the political and national project. Rather, it is a lever towards ending the occupation and establishing the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital," stressing that the world must move to end this occupation because the status quo cannot continue.

finance minister Shukri Bishara also noted that the expected budget deficit for this year will reach about one billion dollars, with a significant decline in international aid.