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The Palestinian government decided Tuesday to delay municipal elections for up to four months after the high court ruled they should be held only in the West Bank and not in the Gaza Strip.

However, a new date for the vote was not set by the government based in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory run by president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-elections-postponed-until-next-year-338097812

Palestinian court excludes Gaza from municipal elections

The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled 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 Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah, which runs the West Bank, would participate.
.....There has been no Palestinian presidential election since 2005 and Abbas has remained in office despite the expiry of his term
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-court-orders-west-bank-only-elections-1435623447

Conflicting reports over deadly shooting by Palestinian police in Nablus

Conflicting reports have emerged over clashes that broke out early Wednesday morning in Nablus City that left one alleged Palestinian gunman shot dead and three others injured by Palestinian security forces.

Spokesperson for the Palestinian security services Adnan Dmeiri told Ma’an that video footage would soon be made public showing four gunmen opening fire on Palestinian police before the officers returned fire, while local Palestinian lawmaker Jamal Tirawi says he had footage proving the four were unarmed when they were shot.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773337

Hamas hampering persistent press

The Foreign Press Association accused in a statement on Aug. 22 Hamas and the security services in the Gaza Strip of imposing restrictions on the entry of foreign journalists to Gaza.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/09/gaza-hamas-restrictions-foreign-journalists.html