Feuding Fatah officials meet as internal rifts threaten November election showing
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- Fatah officials Hussein al-Sheikh and Jibril Rajoub met as the party seeks to ease internal divisions.
- The effort follows a failed reconciliation between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan.
- Fatah’s internal rifts could hurt its performance in the November election.
Fatah officials Hussein al-Sheikh and Jibril Rajoub have met as the dominant Palestinian Authority party tries to contain internal divisions ahead of the November election.
The meeting comes after reconciliation efforts between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Mohammed Dahlan failed to produce results. Fatah is now focusing on disputes it considers more manageable, including the division between al-Sheikh and Rajoub.
The party’s internal rifts have raised concern that Fatah could perform poorly in November.
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Originally published by Times of Israel in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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