Palestinian elections are intended to keep Hamas in check
February 16, 2021 at 6:02 pm In 1993, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) signed a peace agreement with Israel, ending a six-year uprising against the Zionist state's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. The peace endeavour, backed by the international community, aimed to crack down on the Palestinian resistance, mainly that of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, which was formed in 1987 at the start of the First Intifada. When the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established according to the terms of the peace agreement known as the Oslo Accords, it took respons...