RAMALLAH, West Bank \u2014 For the first time in two decades, Palestinians in battle-scarred Gaza have a chance to vote in local elections Saturday.<\/p>\n
And in the Israeli-occupied West Bank<\/a> , voters are casting ballots for the first time since the start of the Israel-Hamas war<\/a> . Turnout may reflect the level of public trust in a broader system led by aging leaders in the West Bank and as Gaza prepares for an anticipated transition from Hamas rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAMALLAH, West Bank \u2014 For the first time in two decades, Palestinians in battle-scarred Gaza have a chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2371,29584,29585,29582,29583,1303,197,37,5539,29581,81,200,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-82593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","9":"tag-2026-election-news","10":"tag-election-latest-news","11":"tag-election-news","12":"tag-election-news-2026","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-israel-hamas-war","17":"tag-ml-palestinian-elections","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-war-and-unrest","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116463725732491733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}