Hamas supporters celebrated Thursday a landslide student election win at a top West Bank university, results experts said further point to the Islamists' growing support in the occupied Palestinian territory.Hamas's Al Wafaa' Islamic bloc won 28 of the 51 seats on the student council at Birzeit University, marking the first time Islamist-aligned candidates have gained control of the body.The bloc aligned with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' secular Fatah movement won just 18 seats.
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Local elections in the West Bank seem to have boosted ties between Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which are running as allies.