Fatah leading in West Bank municipal elections

Fatah leading in West Bank municipal elections Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement was on track to lead municipal councils in several major cities in the occupied West Bank, official election results showed Sunday, with about 95 percent of ballots counted. On Saturday, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and in central Gaza's Deir el-Balah area voted for municipal councils in the first elections since the Gaza war began. Fatah's official electoral list, dubbed "Steadfastness & Giving", was ahead in Hebron, the West Bank's largest city, as well as in Tulkarem and Salfit, according to the Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC).