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In March, jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti and Nasser Al-Qudwa - a nephew of the party's late founder Yasser Arafat - announced a rival slate of candidates to run against Abbas's lineup.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh urged Abbas to defy Israel and go ahead with the polls. Hamas, which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United States, has controlled Gaza since shortly after the last elections, which triggered a civil war. Many saw the timing of the elections as Abbas's bid to reset relations with Washington after the nadir of the Trump era, and as a long-overdue response to criticism of Abbas's legitimacy.

He was elected in and has ruled by decree for more than a decade since his mandate expired. He had hinted at the delay for weeks by claiming that Israel had not agreed to permit East Jerusalem Palestinians to vote in the city. A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said earlier this week that there had been no formal Israeli announcement on whether it would allow Palestinian voting in Jerusalem - as it did during the last elections in - and Israeli officials said on Thursday that there had been no change.

After the postponement Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said he had decided to reinstate government staff who resigned from their posts in order to run for the election. But such measures are unlikely to stem the criticism. It was made by a president who lost his legitimacy over a decade," said Mohammad Dahlan, a former Palestinian security minister and a critic of Abbas. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called the decision "deeply disappointing" and said a new election date "should be set without delay.

Analysts say that with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict low on Biden's priority list, Washington prefers to avoid elections that could empower Hamas and anger Israel as U. Before the postponement State Department Spokesman Ned Price said: "The exercise of democratic elections is a matter for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian leadership to determine.

Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza in the war and has not put an end to its illegal occupation of the seized territories, which the Palestinians want for their future state. Palestinian recognition of Israel has been the foundation of the Oslo accords, a landmark moment in the pursuit of peace between the two sides. Abbas has been facing backlash at home. Palestinians — frustrated by his long and increasingly authoritarian rule, as well as security cooperation with Israel — have been staging protests following the death of an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority while in its custody.

Palestinian Football Association head says planned friendly in Jerusalem is a violation of rights. Israeli authorities refuse to grant licenses to Palestinian water authorities to dig more much-needed wells. Two months after Gaza ceasefire, US is focused on preventing further crisis without a long-term strategy, say experts.