Israel National News reports: “Muhammad Ishtaya, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, holds the Israeli authorities fully responsible for the increase in the number of murders in Arab society, which during the past week surpassed 100 victims.

At the meeting of the Palestinian government in Ramallah, Ishtaya said that the Israeli authorities are not working to stop the phenomenon of violence, are not prosecuting the perpetrators of acts of violence, and this policy is ‘racist’.

According to Ishtaya, Israel, which is a ‘colonialist settler state’ is working to break the spirit of solidarity in the Palestinian society ‘inside’ (Israel) and to create internal conflicts between the Arabs of Israel…”