New Israeli government is just as bad as the last, says Palestinian PM

Mohammad Shtayyeh condemns Naftali Bennett's announcements in support of Israeli settlements

Benjamin Netanyahu's ousting closes one of the worst periods" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the new government headed by a settler advocate, Naftali Bennett, is just as bad as the last, the Palestinian prime minister has said.

We do not see this new government as any less bad than the previous one, and we condemn the announcements of the new prime minister Naftali Bennett in support of Israeli settlements," Mohammad Shtayyeh said, referring to hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israelis who have taken land in the occupied West Bank.