Failure to establish an independent Palestinian state led to popular discontent, [9] and in the January elections, Hamas gained control of the Palestinian Legislative Council the PA's Parliament. August 4. May 10, Hamas: Background and Issues for Congress. April Arafat: From Defender to Dictator. December 1. December This sets it apart from the PLO, of which it is not a member. Hamas entered Palestinian politics as a political party in when it engaged in local elections, and won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections in , beating Fatah.
Since , Israel has launched three wars against Hamas and the Strip. After Hamas won elections in that year, Israel imposed an airtight blockade. Civilians in Gaza have borne the brunt of the fighting. In the last Israeli assault on the Strip, more than 2, Palestinians were killed, including children, over a span of 50 days. While Hamas has clung to using armed resistance, Fatah believes in negotiating with Israel and has completely ruled out using attacks.
The Oslo Accords gave Israel full control of the Palestinian economy as well as civil and security matters in more than 60 percent of the West Bank. Under the agreements, the PA must coordinate with the Israeli occupation over security and any armed resistance attacks planned against Israelis.
This is seen as highly controversial and seen by some as the PA collaborating with the Israeli occupation. In March, protests erupted in the West Bank when prominent Palestinian political activist Basil al-Araj was killed by Israeli forces in Ramallah, after being arrested by PA security personnel on allegations of planning an attack. Abbas, the PA president, regularly and publicly condemns any operations of armed resistance carried out by Palestinians against Israelis.
The issue of armed resistance has cast doubt over whether the unity agreement reached this week would succeed. This means that the PA wants to end the resistance in Gaza and Hamas refuses that. Although groups like Hamas and Fatah have continued to deny it, The Islamic State has begun to take a foothold in the Palestinian territories. Israeli security sources claim that in late and early hundreds of Hamas and Fatah supporters have defected to the Islamic State.
Following the attack on the satirical French news magazine Charlie Hebdo in January , thousands of supporters of the Islamic State crowded the streets of Gaza in protest of the publishing of images of Mohammed by the magazine, and in support of the violent attack that left twelve people dead. Similar demonstrations took place in Ramallah and Hebron. These protestors attempted to storm the the office of the French Cultural Center in Gaza, and burned French flags while chanting calls for the slaughter of French nationals.
Palestinian security forces were dispatched to the protest area, where they arrested seven Islamic State supporters. It was revealed on January 18 that a number of would-be jihadists "training" to join the Islamic State had been arrested in November and December in Galilee, Northern Israel. The seven Arab Israeli citizens were apprehended by Israeli security forces after apparently participating in "training" sessions during which they slaughtered sheep, practiced riding horses, learned how to properly make and hurl a molotov cocktail, and participated in target shooting activities.
The individuals arrested included Adnan Ala al-Din, a 40 year old prominent lawyer from Nazareth, and brothers who had had issues with Israeli security forces in the past.
Ala al-Din presented himself to the security forces as the Senior Commander of the Islamic State in Palestine at the time of his arrest. On February 16, , the leaders of the Fatah movement elected their first ever Vice-President, offering a first look at who may succeed the aging Mahmoud Abbas.
A new reconciliation agreement was signed between Hamas and Fatah in Cairo, Egypt on October 12, To read about this agreement please click here. Today, despite the peace process in shambles, the PA and thus Fatah is the only prospective partner for a lasting solution to the conflict.
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