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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Politics of Palestine Officeholders whose status is disputed are shown in italics National symbols Flag National anthem Coat of arms Administrative divisions Palestinian enclaves Governorates Palestinian refugee camps Government State of Palestine government (Ramallah) President: Mahmoud Abbas a ...
For the 2016 Palestinian local government elections that were initially scheduled for October 2016, the PNI was one of the five left-wing Palestinian factions that formed a joint list called the Democratic Alliance List. [3] At the elections, which took place on 13 May 2017, the Alliance won 5 of the 3,253 contested seats, gaining 0.32% of the ...
The following is a list of members of Fatah, a major Palestinian political party and militia founded sometime between 1958-1959. The list includes leaders, militants, commanders, governors, mayors and financiers that are associated with Fatah and its several various branches.
The latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered on Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing 1,200 and taking about 250 hostages ...
Fatah (/ ˈ f ɑː t ə, f ə ˈ t ɑː / FAH-tə, fə-TAH; Arabic: فتح, romanized: Fatḥ, Palestinian pronunciation:), formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (حركة التحرير الوطني الفلسطيني, Ḥarakat at-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī l-Filasṭīnī), [26] is a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party.
[23] [24] [25] In turn, the PA accuses militants of being "bandits" and agents of instability. [25] The widespread discontent with the Palestinian Authority, along with multiple factors related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, sparked a mass spread of West Bank Palestinian militancy in the 2020s. [26]
The PFLP grew out of the Harakat al-Qawmiyyin al-Arab, or Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), founded in 1953 by George Habash, a Palestinian Christian from Lydda. In 1948, 19-year-old Habash, a medical student, went to his home town of Lydda during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War to help his family.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Political party in Palestine As-Sa'iqa الصاعقة Leader Mohammed Qeis Founded September 1966 Membership 7,000 (1970) 2,000 (1980) Ideology Pan-Arabism Neo-Ba'athism National affiliation Palestine Liberation Organization Alliance of Palestinian Forces Regional affiliation Syrian-led Ba'ath ...