Palestinian Prime Minister-designate and Hamas leader Ismaeel Haneya (C) celebrates with members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Gaza yesterday. -Xinhua

An overwhelming majority among the members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) that convened in both Gaza and Ramallah gave yesterday their confidence to the new cabinet formed by Prime Minister-designate Ismaeel Haneya.

PLC Speaker Aziz Dweik announced after the voting that the PLC offers the new cabinet formed by Haneya as it won the confidence of the council.

He said 71 voted in favor of giving the new cabinet, while 36 members voted against the motion and 2 sustained.

The number of the PLC members is 132 members, where 105 who voted, while 13 members are imprisoned and 14 were absent.

Earlier in the day, Haneya asserted that his cabinet's platform he presented Monday before the Palestinian legislative Council (PLC) to seek its confidence, is an outcome of the Palestinian resistance.

Haneya told reporters before joining the PLC sessions, which entered its second day in both Gaza and Ramallah on Tuesday, that the platform of his cabinet has generated into resistance womb.

He made the remarks in response to the comments by those who said Haneya's cabinet didn't mention the resistance in the platform. "The platform came from resistance womb and I mentioned the word resistance in more than a position," he said.

Haneya once again called on the U.S. administration to be more reasonable and not to repeat its previous statements and judges on a Palestinian cabinet elected via polling stations.

The PLC resumed Tuesday its three-day sessions from Monday in both Gaza and the West Bank city of Ramallah to listen Haneya cabinet's platform and debate its text, which will also go for a confidence voting to the cabinet.