Former Palestinian Authority national security adviser proposes a technocratic government for two years to unify factions, then elections for a government to replace the PA
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UAE-funded shipment of Russia's Sputnik V is largest single batch of vaccines to arrive in Palestinian coastal enclave; cargo arrives via border crossing with Egypt

PA president postpones first Palestinian national elections in 15 years, blaming Israel, but critics say veteran leader afraid of losing

PA President Abbas’s Fatah movement also uses an image that appears to display the entire region as Palestine; vote slated for May 22

Separately, Israel arrests Hamas candidate for parliament, angering terror group

Apart from Fatah and Hamas, notable slates include factions backed by convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti, exiled Abbas rival Dahlan

Fatah heavyweight serving five life sentences for masterminding terror attacks against Israelis; surveys say a list he backs would beat an Abbas slate of candidates

Longtime foe of PA president's regime says it has turned Palestinians into 'beggars'; claims Hamas, Fatah conspiring to allow Abbas to run unopposed in coming vote

UAE-based Mohammed Dahlan, Israel-imprisoned Marwan Barghouti seen as crucial figures in legislative and presidential vote, influencing the power balance between Fatah and Hamas

Shipment was arranged by exiled Fatah chief Mohammad Dahlan, whose movement will offer 20,000 of the vaccines to the Palestinian Authority