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Fatah claims victory in first West Bank poll since 2006

AFP

Supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party were on Sunday claiming victory ahead of the results of the West Bank local elections, in the first such vote since 2006. Late on Saturday, following 12 hours of voting in a ballot which was boycotted by the Islamist Hamas movement which