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Gaza elections

Polls opened in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday in a rare democratic exercise following a decade and a half of delays to Palestinian elections. (AFP)

Palestinians ‘victims of political divisions’; Gazans watch West Bank polls with confusion

  • “Politics controls all the details of our lives; they don’t want our voice to appear, they don’t want us to say no, they look at us as sheep. We don’t have an opinion, they choose for us who rules us and controls us.” Al-Masarai told Arab News
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