Palestinian Deputy President Sheikh: Those who massacred our people are calling us in the language of preachers

Sheikh made a statement on the social media platform of US-based company X.

"Occupied Israel's Foreign Minister Saar appears before us with his supposed concern and sensitivity about the future of democracy in Palestine, after the Palestinian general elections were postponed as a result of his own crimes, practices, terrorism and violence." Sheikh said the following in his statement:

"One day, the fox disguised himself as a preacher... If you are not ashamed, say whatever you wish. Those who are responsible for massacring our people every day are calling us in preacher language today. The situation is that tragicomic."

Israeli Foreign Minister Saar accused Palestinian President Abbas of "corruption" and "deceiving the international community" in his post on the X platform.

Regarding Abbas's claims that Israel is obstructing the elections, Saar said, "The effort to involve Israel in this is just a ridiculous lie made up to avoid responsibility and accountability." he claimed.

Election postponement process

With the presidential decree he published yesterday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas changed the general election date, which was previously set as November 2026, and decided to hold simultaneous presidential and general elections on September 11, 2027.

With the decree he issued on July 9, Abbas announced that general elections would be held on November 28 in East Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Election Commission started receiving candidate list applications on September 26 and accepted the applications of 8 lists in the first four days according to the announced calendar.

In his statement to journalists on August 2, Sheikh stated that Plan B would be put into effect if elections cannot be held due to obstacles in the Gaza Strip or any part of the Palestinian territory.

Sheikh stated that Plan B was to establish the National Council by consensus by accepting the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.

There are approximately 2 million 970 thousand voters in Palestine who have the right to vote.

1 million 590 thousand of these voters reside in the occupied West Bank, 1 million 240 thousand in the Gaza Strip and approximately 140 thousand in occupied East Jerusalem.

In Palestine, where the last general elections were held in 2006, internal conflicts broke out between Hamas and the Fatah movement in 2007 after Hamas won the ballot box.

After the clashes, Gaza came under the control of Hamas, while the West Bank remained under the control of Fatah, led by the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian parliament, which has become dysfunctional since 2007, was dissolved by the decision of the Constitutional Court in 2018.