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The succession fight is bound to be heated - and violent. Thu Apr 1, 2021 Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is now 85-years old; he is frail and largely dysfunctional, as is his Ramallah based Palestinian Authority (PA), which he has presided over since 2005. Abbas has also been chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004. A third leadership position held by Abbas is that of the chairman of the Fatah (party and terror group at times). A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza want Abbas to resign. According to the Palestinian Center ...

Prominent Dahlan aide returns to Gaza Palestinian Rashed Abu Shbak (C), the head of preventive security in the Gaza Strip, walks out after the meeting of security commanders with Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan on 20 August 2003 at his office in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. [Abid Katib/Getty Images] March 16, 2021 at 10:54 am Rashid Abu-Shbak, one of the most prominent aides of dismissed Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan, returned to the Gaza Strip after 14 years in exile, Palestinian media reported. In a statement, senior leader in Dahlan's Democratic Reform Current, Salah Abu-Khatla, sa...

Some may recall the killing of Musa Arafat, Yasser Arafat's cousin, before the Hamas takeover of Gaza.  The gangland-style assassination of General Musa Arafat – security advisor to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas and former head of PA Military Intelligence and the PA’s National Security forces in Gaza – on September 7, 2005, was another sign of the PA’s inability to impose law and order in the Palestinian areas since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. In a pre-dawn raid, 100 heavily armed men from the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees opened f...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Aug. 22, 2015. (Flash90) When President Mahmoud Abbas announced last month that the Palestinian Authority will be holding national elections for the first time in nearly 15 years, it reignited much debate over whether such elections could indeed be meaningful. Given the context of a fragmented Palestinian political body operating under a military occupation, what purpose would elections serve? On the one hand, the decision to hold legislative a...

Published date: 18 February 2021 14:31 UTC | Last update: 4 weeks ago Both parties are going into the elections without an agreed vision for Palestine and a detailed plan for obtaining it A Palestinian member of Central Elections Commission displays an ID to a colleague as they check the work of the first Voter Information and Registration Centre in Gaza City on 10 February, 2021 (AFP) You can tell when elections are being planned in the occupied West Bank.  This is the fifth time elections across Palestine have been attempted in the past 15 years ...