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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends the foundation stone ceremony of the Innovation and Excellence Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 9, 2026. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)
October 8, 2026, 11:58 pm
Palestinian factions discuss delaying their first legislative elections in 20 years
Abbas’s Fatah says no final decision made on November 28 vote; needs to consult with other factions and PLO executive committee; Islamic Jihad says elections to be delayed
By ABBY SEWELL, SAM METZ and ToI Staff
This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (R) meeting with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas in Ramallah on March 24, 2025. (Thaer Ghanaim / PPO / AFP) /
October 6, 2026, 7:03 pm
EU ‘ready to deploy’ observers for November Palestinian legislative election, envoy says
Kaja Kallas says vote offers ‘long-overdue opportunity to renew legitimacy’ of PA institutions, but questions remain as to whether it’ll be held amid Israeli restrictions, divisions in Abbas’s Fatah
By AFP and Jacob Magid
Fatah Central Committee member Yasser Abbas speaks during a visit to the northern West Bank city of Jenin on September 13, 2026. (Yasser Abbas/Facebook)
September 23, 2026, 12:23 am
PA president’s son unsuccessfully sought to skirt US ban on Palestinian officials
Canadian passport proves insufficient as Yasser Abbas not allowed on flight from Dubai to NYC, where he planned to meet foreign delegations on UN sidelines, sources tell ToI
By Jacob Magid
Rawhi Fattouh, the designated temporary replacement for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Youtube screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the copyright law)
November 27, 2024, 11:43 pm
Abbas declares Rawhi Fattouh will be interim PA head if presidency becomes vacant
Speaker of Palestinian National Council briefly served as interim PA president after Yasser Arafat’s death
By ToI Staff
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar in an interview with Sky News broadcast May 24, 2021. (YouTube screen capture)
August 16, 2022, 10:22 am
Hamas source denies co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar quitting group’s leadership
Purported resignation letter circulated on social media cites ‘special and personal’ reasons for leaving; source claims ‘hostile parties’ behind disinformation
By ToI Staff
Former Fatah official Nasser al-Kidwa, center left, and Marwan Barghouti's wife, Fadwa, center right, leave the Palestinian Central Election Commission office after registering their joint list for the upcoming parliamentary election in May, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP/Nasser Nasser)
April 2, 2021, 9:12 am
As Palestinians march to elections, Barghouti challenge threatens to upend race
Observers initially scoffed at PA President Abbas’s election decree as a ploy — but intentionally or not, it has paved the way for the most serious challenge to his rule in years
By Aaron Boxerman
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas casts a vote at the Muqataa, the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the city of Ramallah, West Bank, December 3, 2016. (Ahmad Gharabli/Pool photo via AP)
March 30, 2021, 8:53 pm
EU accuses Israel of ignoring request to observe Palestinian elections
PA says Israel has also yet to respond to demand to hold vote in Jerusalem
By Aaron Boxerman
An employee inspects the main hall of the defunct Palestinian Parliament in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 17, 2019. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)
January 14, 2020, 6:28 pm
Palestinian election prospects raise hopes for moribund parliament’s rebirth
Palestinian Legislative Council has not met for over a decade, but as mail piles up and workers try to keep busy, some see promised vote bringing the building back to life
By AFP
Senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Khalida Jarrar, sitting at the Ofer Military Court near Ramallah on May 21, 2015. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
November 3, 2019, 9:42 pm
Military court keeps senior PFLP member in jail for eight days
Khalida Jarrar’s husband says his wife’s lawyer informed him of Ofer Military Court’s decision; Shin Bet spokesman confirms
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar is greeted by supporters near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, on June 3, 2016. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)
October 31, 2019, 12:07 pm
Israeli forces re-arrest senior PFLP member in Ramallah
Official says Khalida Jarrar was arrested on suspicion of ‘involvement in terror activity’; she recently spent 19 months in prison under an administrative detention order
By Adam Rasgon
A Palestinian gestures next to campaign posters depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right candidate Itamar Ben Gvir (L) in the West Bank town of Hebron on September 7, 2019. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
September 9, 2019, 8:13 am
As Israel returns to polls, Palestinian democracy in stasis
Factional rivalries, infighting and Israeli restrictions have left the ‘first Arab democracy’ without elections since 2006
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Aziz Dweik at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
December 26, 2018, 6:15 pm
PA bars Hamas speaker of parliament from Ramallah, since dissolution ‘in effect’
Aziz Dweik was set to give a press conference in the West Bank city criticizing Abbas’s decision to break up Palestinian Legislative Council
By Agencies
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gives a speech after laying a wreath at the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 11, 2018. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
December 22, 2018, 11:50 pm
As Abbas reiterates plans to dissolve PA parliament, Hamas warns of chaos
Lawmaker for terror group says move — largely symbolic as Legislative Council has long been defunct — would ‘destroy the political system’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee at PA headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah September 15, 2018. (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)
December 9, 2018, 8:08 pm
Abbas says he’ll soon dissolve PA parliament, which hasn’t met in a decade
Move seen as bid to undermine Hamas, with whom 74 of 132 Palestinian Legislative Council members identify, and which claims Ramallah would be acting illegally
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinians in Gaza participate in a rally organized by Fatah dissidents to mark the 14th anniversary of former Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's death on November 20, 2018. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
November 20, 2018, 8:08 pm
Fatah dissidents rally in Gaza behind top Abbas rival, call for unity
Ramallah-based leadership lashes out after Mohammed Dahlan delivers address at event marking Arafat’s death anniversary, accuses Hamas of using minarets to urge participation
By Adam Rasgon
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