About time – Peter
Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip: Palestinians voted in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The vote on Saturday (Gaza time) in Gaza’s central city of Deir al-Balah was a largely symbolic pilot election, officials said, part of the Palestinian Authority’s effort to politically link Gaza and the West Bank.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – unpopular in the West Bank and frozen out of US-led postwar plans for ending Hamas rule in Gaza – hopes to establish an independent state in both territories.
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