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election in the West Bank, running unchallenged in many seats. ## Low voter turnout in Gaza Fatah spokesperson Abdul Fattah Dawla noted that turnout was close to that for the last
West Bank not under Israeli control. Fatah, the faction led by President Mahmoud Abbas and which dominates the PLO, was violently ousted from Gaza by Hamas in the aftermath of the last elections
Gaza that Israel withdrew from last year under the current ceasefire, did not field candidates and did not try to block the vote. Turnout in the West Bank elections
West Bank. Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations deputy special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, called the elections “an important opportunity for Palestinians to exercise their democratic rights during an exceptionally challenging period”. Hamas
Gaza. Slovenia’s premier, Robert Golob, who was re-elected in a tight election this March, has been a vocal critic of Israel’s war and, in August 2025, his government announced
elections. Leading leftwing Knesset member Yair Golan [hailed it](https://www.ynetnews.com/article/idj6159mn) “the beginning of the end of the worst government in Israel’s history.” Benjamin Netanyahu has spent 20 of the last 30 years
last week the detained flotilla members were handled with “great sensitivity”. Ben-Gvir was sanctioned by Australia in June 2025 for inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Outspoken since returning to the backbench
West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital. However, Palestinian opinion polls indicate profound dissatisfaction with their leader. In a survey late last year, 80% wanted him to resign. At a party
elections. The shift has been particular marked on the left. When Bernie Sanders, a US senator, first tabled a joint resolution of disapproval (JRD) to oppose arms sales to Israel last year, it received votes
Gaza](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5811930/gaza-recovering-bodies) Palestinians, rights groups and international observers are increasingly warning about the worsening violence in the occupied West Bank, where young Palestinian men are being killed with increasing regularity amid a broader
West Bank – are common, no sitting member of Congress is known to have visited Gaza in recent years. In October 2023, Congressman Mark Pocan, who represents Wisconsin, said that no member of Congress had been
elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron on 25 April 2026. Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images Most electoral lists are aligned with President Mahmud Abbas’s secular-nationalist Fatah party or running
Gaza. Burnham has criticised Israel’s illegal settlements and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He visited the occupied West Bank with Labour Friends of Palestine in 2012 and told the Palestine Solidarity campaign in July that
last [joined forces](/news/2021/5/31/close-look-at-israels-potential-coalition-against-netanyahu) in 2021 and won the election, they formed an unusually broad coalition spanning right-wing, centre, and left-wing parties, as well as – for the first time in Israeli government
West Bank, advocated illegal settlement expansion, promoted the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and called on the military to block humanitarian aid from reaching starving Palestinians. The Israeli scholar Menachem Klein has argued that
last May as our chief Middle East correspondent. I spoke to her as she waited to board her flight to Zurich, where she’s been nominated for an award for her reporting from [Gaza
Gaza. Settlers have attempted to re-establish it over the years, and it is one of four former West Bank settlements to recently be approved by the Israeli government, in violation of international
Gaza Strip. ## Settler violence across the West Bank On April 21 in al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, a shooter in military fatigues [opened fire towards](https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXcNMUqj9Mr/) a school, killing two people, including
Last June, Britain, Norway, Australia, New Zealand and Canada imposed sanctions on the two Israeli ministers, accusing them of inciting violence against Palestinians. [Smotrich,](/news/2024/6/21/is-israels-smotrich-fulfilling-his-dream-of-annexing-the-west-bank) who lives in a settlement in the occupied West Bank
elected Austria and [Portugal](https://www.theguardian.com/world/portugal) to a two-year term along with Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe, marked a blow to Merz’s struggling government, which has sought to position itself