Palestine Center Brief No. 348 (April 27, 2021)
By Dalal Yassine
On Monday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the Fatah Central Committee in Ramallah about the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections planned for next month.
He declared that Jerusalem is a “red line” and that elections could not be held if Israel prevented Palestinian residents from participating. All indications are that those elections – the first in 15 years – will be postponed, likely indefinitely.
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This article originally appeared in The New Arab.
Dalal Yassine is a Non-Resident Fellow at The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center. The views in this brief are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of The Jerusalem Fund.
