WorldNews Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 [attach=full]21198[/attach]Former US president Jimmy Carter on Saturday urged Palestinians to hold elections to end the de facto division of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Islamist-run Gaza Strip. He was speaking at a joint news conference with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the Palestinian political capital Ramallah in the West Bank. "We hope that sometime we'll see elections all over the Palestinian area and east Jerusalem and Gaza and also in the West Bank," said Carter, a member of the independent Elders Group of global leaders. In 2006, a year after Abbas was elected, Hamas won the most recent Palestinian legislative elections. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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