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PFLP will run with Hamas in West Bank

21 August 2016, 5:01 pm
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The radical left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announces they will run with the hard-line Islamist Hamas in upcoming municipal elections.

The PFLP statement said they would be on a joint list with the Gaza-based terror group in the Tubas Governorate, located in the northeastern West Bank. The municipal elections are scheduled for October 8.

Palestinian activists from the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) demonstrate against the detention by Israel of Bilal Kayed, a fellow PFLP member on hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Nablus, July 29, 2016, (AFP/JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)
Palestinian activists from the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) demonstrate against the detention by Israel of Bilal Kayed, a fellow PFLP member on hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Nablus, July 29, 2016, (AFP/JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

The Israeli Defense forces earlier on Sunday blamed the military wing of the PFLP, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, for firing a rocket that hit the Israeli city of Sderot.

— Dov Leiber

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