An-Najah News - Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said that Israel is in a race against time to create a fait accompli in Palestine before US President Donald Trump leaves office including new Israeli settlement projects in the occupied territories as proof of this race.

He added“There appears to be an escalating and intensive assault plan for the next 10 weeks in a race against time to create a new fait accompli before Donald Trump leaves the White House on January 21.

He said.“We look with concern at the frequent reports about new colonial settlement projects in Arab Jerusalem and the West Bank, which aim to encircle and stifle the Palestinian Arab neighborhoods and prevent interaction between them and the rest of the West Bank and to completely isolate the city of Jerusalem,”