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Fatah committee starts debating parliament list ahead of elections

By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent

A Fatah committee on Wednesday started debating the party's list for the Palestinian parliamentary elections scheduled for January 25.

Several committee members from the West Bank could not make it to the meeting, held in Gaza and headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, because Israel refused to give them travel permits.

Attempts to hold primary elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were met with violent clashes, complaints of forgeries and obstructions.

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