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Palestinians in Gaza to vote in municipal elections, offering view into support for Hamas

It will be Gaza's first vote of any kind since 2006, when Hamas won the PA's legislative elections and later seized control of Gaza following a brief civil war with PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah.

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Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter at a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip May 11, 2024.
Demonstrators gather to protest in support of causes that include the Palestinians, immigration, labor, and the environment, at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, March 12, 2025; illustrative.

Seattle Palestinian festival hosting terrorist released in hostage deal as keynote speaker

Raed Abduljalil, a former al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades terrorist released in a hostage ransom, is set to speak at the Seattle Palestinian Cultural Resistance Festival.

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RAMALLAH GOVERNER Laila Ghannam with the British Ministry of Defence’s Senior Adviser for the Middle East and North Africa, General Edward Ahlgren.

UK defense official met Ramallah governor who held meetings with released terrorists

The British Ministry of Defense’s Senior Adviser for the Middle East and North Africa, V.-Adm. Edward Ahlgren, met Ramallah Governor Laila Ghannam, a senior Palestinian Authority official.

|ByAMICHAI STEIN
Officials gather in the mourning tent for Palestinian terrorist Riyad Al-Amour in early April 2026.

Israel to blame for released terrorist's death in Egypt, Palestinian Authority claims

Despite blaming Israel, the Palestinian Authority suspended a PA medical professional after launching an investigation into Riyad Al-Amour’s death.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Gazans credit Trump for ceasefire, reject Hamas rule in Gaza, new poll finds

70% of Gazans believe that Hamas does not have the power to 'control the situation,' the poll found.

MARCH 2, 2025ByARIELA OHRENSTEIN
Small minority of Gazans want Hamas to continue after war, new poll shows.

The PA may want to run Gaza, but it would face numerous obstacles - analysis

Fatah spokesperson Maher al-Namoura says the Palestinian Authority is ready to govern and rebuild Gaza as ceasefire talks and discussions on the strip’s future continue.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A Palestinian woman holds a picture of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, in Gaza City, January 1, 2020

Abbas risks Palestinian backlash over restructuring of 'pay-to-slay'

Scrapping the system of salary-type payments has been a major demand of successive US administrations. Abbas had long resisted pressure to halt the program.

FEBRUARY 11, 2025ByREUTERS
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., September 26, 2024.

High-ranking released terrorist calls for ‘resistance,’ alleges abuse in prison

Zakaria Zubeidi, who was released as part of a ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas, asserted that "resistance… will lead us to freedom."

JANUARY 31, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Zakaria Zubeidi, commander of armed wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, is greeted by his relatives as part of the third batch of the first phase of the hostage swap agreement between Hamas and Israel in Ramallah, West Bank on January 30, 2025.

Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi released with 109 Palestinian prisoners

Terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi, a 2021 Gilboa prison escapee, was released on Thursday.

JANUARY 31, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A crowd greets Zakaria Zubeidi who were released in a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas as he arrives to the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 30, 2025.

Who is Zakaria Zubeidi, the Fatah terrorist to be released in the ceasefire deal? - explainer

Zubeidi was born in 1976 to a family of nine in Jenin, a Palestinian city in the West Bank.

JANUARY 18, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Zakaria Zubeidi. Jenin, December 30, 2004.

Hamas, Palestinian Authority trade blows over human shields, West Bank operations

Fatah said it wouldn't allow Hamas "to reproduce its activities in the West Bank" and that the terror group jeopardized the Palestinian people.

JANUARY 11, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
Gunmen stand during the funeral of Palestinian Ribhi Shalabi, who was killed in clashes with Palestinian Authority forces, in Jenin camp in the West Bank, December 10, 2024.

Gaza clans, dignitaries call for PA’s return

These coordinated calls from Gaza’s traditional leadership structures could potentially influence discussions about the territory’s future governance arrangements.

JANUARY 8, 2025ByOHAD MERLIN
The Gaza City and northern Gaza clan leaders called on the Palestinian Authority to govern the Gaza Strip.

PA official: 'Battle in 1967 occupied lands open,' but coordination with Fatah required

Jibril Rajoub, long time Fatah politician and current president of the Palestinian Football Association, called on Palestinian armed terrorists to coordinate their ‘resistance’ endeavors with Fatah.

JANUARY 7, 2025ByOHAD MERLIN
Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub holds a news conference to update the media about challenges facing Palestinian sports ahead of the Olympics in Paris, in Ramallah, in the West Bank June 12, 2024.

Palestinian Authority freezes Al Jazeera operations in West Bank

The freeze in operations follows Fatah's December 23 announcement that they will ban the media giant after inciting during clashes in Jenin.

JANUARY 1, 2025BySAM HALPERN
AL JAZEERA headquarters in Doha, Qatar.