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Officially, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) represents Palestinians worldwide at international fora, while the Palestinian Authority (PA), a newer institution led by a PLO faction...
Palestinian Authority vs Hamas: What is the difference? - Analysis. This week Abbas ruled out calling another Palestinian parliamentary election if Israel bars Palestinians in east...
12 Oct 2017. Save articles to read later and create your own reading list. Hamas and Fatah are the two most dominant parties in the Palestinian political scene. On Thursday, the two movements...
Hamas won 2006 parliamentary elections elections and in 2007 violently seized control of the Gaza Strip from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority, dominated by rival Fatah movement, administers semi-autonomous areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
In the Palestinian legislative elections on 25 January 2006, Hamas emerged victorious and nominated Ismail Haniyeh as the Authority's Prime Minister. However, the national unity Palestinian government effectively collapsed, when a violent conflict between Hamas and Fatah erupted, mainly in the Gaza Strip.
11 Oct 2023. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is a governing body that has overseen parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the mid-’90s. Its creation was supposed to pave the way to an...
Updated. Last updated April 18, 2024 4:33 pm (EST) Summary. Hamas is an Islamist militant group that spun off from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s. It took...
