Palestinian Elections

Can Fatah’s Democratic Reform faction handle peace with both Israel and Hamas?

PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS: Politically active Palestinians argue that Palestinians must learn to coexist with people they may profoundly disagree with, and do so peacefully.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2026|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

MOHAMMAD DAHLAN, leader of Fatah’s Democratic Reform faction, has called for Palestinians to put past divisions aside and build a political system in which elections transfer power, and institutions are ‘greater than individuals.’

A Palestinian man walks past graffiti showing Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti in Bethlehem, West Bank.

The Barghouti ‘myth’: Why Palestinians still want a leader they barely know - interview

Asked how it was possible that a man with limited communication to the Palestinian people could enjoy such popularity, Milshtein explained that it was his absence that allowed his popularity to grow.

AUGUST 31, 2026|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

YASSER ABBAS attends the results announcement of Fatah’s Eighth General Conference, in Ramallah, May 18.

The world is watching Israel’s election while ignoring the Palestinian one - opinion

Global media is closely scrutinizing Israel's election while overlooking Palestinian elections that could empower Hamas or Marwan Barghouti and reshape the region.

AUGUST 28, 2026|ByGIL HOFFMAN

MARWAN BARGHOUTI is escorted in handcuffs by police into Jerusalem Magistrates Court in 2012.

Marvel actors join campaign calling for release of Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti

Barghouti is a former leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a terrorist organization that carried out many suicide bombings and shooting attacks during the Second Intifada.

AUGUST 23, 2026|ByJONAH DAVIDOV, MATHILDA HELLER

Top Hamas terrorist disqualified from Palestinian election

Ruled out for not appearing on the commission's final voter registry.

APRIL 5, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH

Hassan Salameh, a top member of the Hamas Islamic group, sits back under armed guard on the defendant's bench in an Israeli army military court as he waits to be sentenced July 7. Salameh, convicted of masterminding three Hamas suicide bombings last year which left 45 people dead, was sentenced to 4

Israel adopting hands-off approach to Palestinian elections

“Israel has not taken an official stance on the matter… but at the moment, Israel is not doing anything to prevent the election.”

APRIL 4, 2021ByLAHAV HARKOV, KHALED ABU TOAMEH

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas hands an election decree to chairman of the Palestinian Central Election Committee, Hana Naser, in Ramallah, January 2021

What will Palestinian elections mean for Israel?

Palestinian elections at this time could conceivably be a time of renewal, a time for stock-taking and new thinking.

APRIL 1, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL

CAN THEY work together to form a coalition? Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid in the Knesset in 2013.

EU: Israel not granting visas to its delegation on Palestinian elections

"The delay has considerably reduced the EU option to observe the 22 May legislative Elections," the EU Representative Office in Jerusalem said.

MARCH 31, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

Hamas: Arab countries asked Abbas to scrap elections

The senior Hamas official did not mention the names of the countries that reportedly approached the PA president.

MARCH 27, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH

MAHMOUD ABBAS covers his head as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recites the Motzei at their joint press conference.

Palestinian elections to pave way for the return of Dahlan?

PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS: Mohammad Dahlan, who was expelled from Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction in 2011 after a fallout with the PA president, has since been living in the United Arab Emirates.

MARCH 25, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH