A statement issued by the office of the Palestinian Vice President said that the Sheikh received the Turkish ambassador at his office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, where the two sides discussed developments in the Palestinian territories in light of the continued Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip and the worsening humanitarian situation there.
Both sides stressed the need to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip urgently and to ensure the entry of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, in order to alleviate the worsening humanitarian crisis.
They also stressed the importance of putting an end to the systematic violations by settlers against Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, and the accompanying escalation that negatively affects stability and living conditions.
The Sheikh praised Turkey’s supportive role towards the Palestinian people and Ankara’s efforts to intervene to alleviate human suffering, while Ambassador Çobanoğlu affirmed his country’s continued and unwavering support for the Palestinian cause and its backing of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
This comes as Israel, since launching its two-year war of extermination on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, with American support, continues its attacks in the occupied West Bank, including killing, arrest, displacement and settlement expansion, in a course that Palestinians see as paving the way for the formal annexation of the West Bank.
According to official Palestinian data, at least 1,111 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, since then, and about 11,500 others have been injured, in addition to the arrest of more than 21,000.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza left approximately 72,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, and caused destruction affecting 90% of the civilian infrastructure.
On a daily basis, Israel violates the ceasefire agreement in effect since October 10, 2025, resulting in the deaths of 529 Palestinians. It also prevents the entry of agreed-upon quantities of humanitarian aid into Gaza, where some 2.4 million Palestinians, including 1.5 million displaced persons, live in catastrophic conditions.
