Palestinian factions accuse Israel of poll interference
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Ramallah, April 7 : Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas-led Fatah party and the Islamic Hamas movement have accused Israel of interfering in the upcoming legislative elections scheduled for May 22.
Jamal Muheisen, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said a statement issued on Tuesday that Israel is interfering in the Palestinian elections by arresting candidates in the West Bank and East Jerusalem,reports Xinhua news agency. Israel arrested on Tuesday morning four candidates who are on Fatah electoral list from East Jerusalem shortly before holding a meeting to discuss preparing their campaign for running in the legislative elections, Muheisen said.
A total of 20,000 doses of Russia s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines, funded by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing.
Today, we have received the shipment of COVID-19 vaccines funded by the UAE, Ghazi Hamad, undersecretary of the Hamas-run ministry of social development, told reporters at the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
Hamad added that the UAE will send more doses of coronavirus vaccines to the Gaza Strip in the near future.
The arrival of the coronavirus vaccines in the Palestinian coastal enclave is an important opportunity to save the people in Gaza Strip from the spread of the virus in light of the lack of medical staff as well as equipment, Hamad said.
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