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Mar 19, 2024 · Power in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the so-called Palestinian territories, has been divided among three entities: a governing body called the Palestinian Authority, the militant group Hamas ...
Oct 23, 2023 · Many, especially Israel’s allies, are looking to the Palestinian Authority ( PA ), which was thrown out of Gaza by Hamas almost two years after Israel withdrew its troops and dismantled its ...
Oct 9, 2023 · After the creation of Israel in 1948, Egypt controlled Gaza for nearly two decades. After Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War against its Arab neighbors, it gained control of the Gaza Strip ...
- Yasmine Salam
Oct 11, 2023 · Just a year later, the PA lost its grip on power after Hamas won parliamentary elections, taking control of the Gaza Strip after a brief civil war. Hamas, which has refused to recognise the state ...
Oct 15, 2023 · 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. Israel responded to the Hamas takeover with a ...
- seldeeb@ap.org
- Investigative Reporter
Nov 24, 2023 · But the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7 have nearly destroyed Israeli trust in Palestinian governance, and if elections were held today, it is probable, experts and polls suggest, that Hamas would win ...
Oct 19, 2023 · The PA has been steadily losing ground ever since. Today, a staggering 87 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza believe that the PA is corrupt, 78 percent want Abbas to resign, and 62 ...
