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In Brief: No clear lead in polling ahead of May Palestinian elections

Posted 26 March, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The unclear results of Israel’s general election this week appear to be mirrored within the Palestinian Authority, according to polling conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research. Should elections go ahead in May, the polling found that both Fatah, the party of PA president Mahmoud Abbas, and…

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In brief: Fatah and Hamas hold new Cairo talks on Palestinian elections

Posted 16 March, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0  via Wikimedia Commons Representatives of arch-enemies Fatah and Hamas are meeting this week in Cairo for a second round of talks aimed at allowing elections in the West Bank and Gaza to go ahead this summer. Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) called the elections – the first for 15 years – in January but…

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In Brief: Hamas Gaza chief Sinwar flounders in bid for re-election

Posted 10 March, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
Photo: Orthuberra, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, appears to be floundering in his bid for re-election after three rounds of voting in a highly secret ballot on Tuesday produced no clear winner. Sinwar has held the post since 2017, making him the defacto ruler of the coastal…

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In brief: Abbas decrees lead to rising hopes Palestinian elections will go ahead

Posted 2 March, 2021 in Analysis, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons A series of decrees issued by Mahmoud Abbas has raised hopes that Palestinians will get to vote in their first elections in 15 years this spring. On Monday, the Palestinian president (pictured) released a decree establishing an elections court which, it is planned, will arbitrate disputes between Abbas'…

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In brief: PA tightens West Bank lockdown as more vaccine doses expected in days

Posted 2 March, 2021 in Analysis, Palestinian Territories
CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Palestinian Authority announced a 12-day tightening of the West Bank's coronavirus restrictions on Saturday, but also said a $10m batch of vaccine doses would be arriving this week. The new measures will see the closure of nurseries and schools as well as an…

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In Brief: Fatah dissidents set to break away and run against Abbas in PA vote

Posted 23 February, 2021 in Analysis, Palestinian Territories
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party looks set to split into two - or possibly three - rival slates in this summer's planned parliamentary elections, the Haaretz newspaper reported this week. Nasser al-Kidwa, the nephew of Yasser Arafat and a former PLO ambassador to the United Nations, confirmed publicly that…

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Analysis: Labour vows to challenge government on PA curriculum

Posted 17 February, 2021 in Analysis, Labour Party, Palestinian Territories
Wayne David. Photo: Richard Townshend, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; The Labour frontbench is to press the government on Britain’s funding of the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum – a curriculum which glorifies terrorists, incites violence and is riddled with antisemitic and anti-Israeli content. The announcement by shadow Middle East minister Wayne David (pictured) is a…

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In Brief: Israeli natural gas plan offers chance to alleviate Gaza humanitarian crisis

Posted 17 February, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
Gaza port. Photo: Ramez Habboub, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Gaza's humanitarian crisis could be eased by the announcement last weekend of a major deal between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli energy company Delek to supply natural gas to the coastal enclave's sole power plant. The agreement was announced by Qatar's envoy to Gaza…

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In Brief: Hamas restocks arsenal to 2014 levels and further restricts women’s rights

Posted 17 February, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
Photo: Orthuberra, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Hamas has restocked its deadly arsenal since the 2014 Gaza war, a senior Israeli military commander said last week. The news came as an Islamic court in the coastal enclave further tightened restrictions on women, saying they needed the permission of a male guardian to travel. The Gaza-based terror…

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LFI Chair: We must suspend aid that finances hate-filled curriculum

Posted 17 February, 2021 in Coexistence, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
Image: IMPACT-se Labour Friends of Israel Chair Steve McCabe MP has written for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Britain is a long-standing advocate of  a two-state solution, but its funding for these lessons in hate undermines this. We should support efforts to bring about peace, reconciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, UK aid…

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