The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the occupied West Bank and not in the Gaza Strip, though a new date for the suspended polls was not set.
The ruling could bring to an end hopes that the municipal elections would be the first since 2006 in which both Hamas, which is stationed in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah, which runs the West Bank, would participate, news agencies reported.
Source: AFP
