West Bank votes in polls underlining Palestinian split

View photosA Palestinian man shows his ink-stained finger after casting his ballot during municipal elections in the village of Yatta in the West Bank on May 13, 2017 (AFP Photo/HAZEM BADER)
MoreRamallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voted Saturday in municipal elections that underscored deep rifts between president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party and Islamist rival Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip.
Their failure to reconcile is seen as a major ob