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3 Min Read GAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party expelled Yasser Arafat’s nephew on Thursday over his attempt to field a separate list of candidates in a May parliamentary election. Slideshow ( 2 images ) The Palestinian nationalist movement’s highest decision-making body, the Central Committee, said it had given Nasser Al-Qudwa two days to drop his breakaway challenge, but that he had failed to comply. Fatah’s internal divisions were a key factor in the party’s loss to its Islamist rival Hamas in the last parliamentary election in 2006. Fatah had been widely expected to win that vote even though Arafat, its figurehead and co-founder, had died just over a year earlier. But its vote was split by official and unofficial candidates running against each other. ....
December 24, 2020: The West Bank Fatah government calls for war against Israel still produces a lot of attacks in the West bank. In the last year there have been nearly 600 rock throwing incidents, 90 stabbing attempts and twenty firebomb attacks. Fatah, the political party that has ruled all Palestinians until 2007 (when Hamas gained control of Gaza), and the West Bank since the 1990s, openly calls for the destruction of Israel. Hamas won the last Palestinian elections in 2006 because they were seen as less corrupt than Fatah. Hamas was also much more into using violence against Israel, and that came with a cost to all Palestinians. When Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007 they refused to allow any further elections. This left the Palestinians divided with Fatah still controlling the West Bank, where 60 percent of Palestinians lived. Holding elections is one thing; both Hamas and Fatah agreeing on the outcome is another ....