Palestinian factions explore broad alliance for November elections

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 19, 2026 · 840 words · By Yosra Aklouk

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Palestinian Electoral Politics Intra-Palestinian Factionalism

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Palestinian factions explore broad alliance for November elections Hamas and breakaway Fatah faction consider a unified electoral list to challenge Mahmoud Abbas as the political landscape shifts.

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What happened

Palestinian factions explore broad alliance for November elections Hamas and breakaway Fatah faction consider a unified electoral list to challenge Mahmoud Abbas as the political landscape shifts.

Why it matters

Hamas and other Palestinian political factions opposed to the ruling Fatah government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are exploring the formation of a broad electoral coalition before historic polls late this year.

Common ground

Husam Badran, the national relations official for Hamas, told Al Jazeera that the movement has recently held bilateral and collective meetings with groups that include Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “a delegation led by Dahlan held a meeting on Monday with a Hamas delegation headed by Khalil al-Hayya.”

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The evidence mentions a meeting between a delegation led by Dahlan and a Hamas delegation, but the specific detail of it happening 'on Monday' with Khalil al-Hayya leading the Hamas side is only found in one Al Jazeera source.

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web search NEUTRAL — Khalil al-Hayya (Arabic: خليل الحية, romanized: Ḫalīl al-Ḥayya.In November 2019, al-Hayya and Rawhi Mushtaha led a delegation that departed from the Gaza Strip to visit several countries, including Tu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_al-Hayya

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web search NEUTRAL — Khalil Al-Hayya, head of Hamas' office in Gaza (archive).The canceled session was slated to be the first direct meeting between Hamas and Fatah leadership since October, when delegations led by Hamas …
https://almanassa.com/en/news/33578

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web search NEUTRAL — The Hamas delegation is led by Khalil al-Hayya, a senior official who survived an Israeli strike in Doha last month.Hayya was born in January 1960 in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City and grew u…
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1480027/chief-negoti…

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Claim 2: “Abbas abruptly postponed both the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2021, citing Israeli voting restrictions in East Jerusalem.”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was provided in the search results to verify or refute the claim regarding the 2021 postponement.

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Claim 3: “was eventually expelled from Fatah by Abbas in 2011”

CORROBORATED

Multiple sources, including Wikipedia, confirm that Mahmoud Abbas expelled Mohammed Dahlan from Fatah in 2011.

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web search NEUTRAL — Mohammad Yusuf Dahlan.In June 2011 Dahlan was expelled from Fatah because of repeated claims by Mahmoud Abbas that he had murdered Arafat.[38] In September, his house was raided by the Palestinian pol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Dahlan

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web search NEUTRAL — The latter would fit the script Abbas used to oust Dahlan in 2011. Once considered an up-and-coming star within Fatah, Dahlan was promoted to head the PA’s security services in Gaza in the 1990s by Ya…
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/palestine-mahmoud-abbas…

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web search NEUTRAL — Mohammad Dahlan was elected to Fatah ’s Central Committee in 2009, but increased tensions with Mahmoud Abbas led to his expulsion from Fatah in 2011.
https://ecfr.eu/special/mapping_palestinian_politics/mohamme…

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Claim 4: “Campaigning is set to launch on November 6”

CORROBORATED

Web search results specifically mention that campaigning for the elections is scheduled to begin on November 6.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Legislative elections will be held in Palestine on 28 November 2026 in order to elect the 3rd Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Most r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Palestinian_legislative_e…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It encompasses the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, both of which are occ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Second Intifada (Arabic: الانتفاضة الثانية, romanized: al-Intifāḍa aṯ-Ṯāniya, lit. 'The Second Uprising'; Hebrew: האינתיפאדה השנייה, romanized: ha-Intifada ha-Shniya), also known as the Al-Aqsa In…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada

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Claim 5: “the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, as Fatah is formally known”

VERIFIED BY REFERENCE

Wikipedia and other reference sources explicitly state that Fatah's official name is the Palestinian National Liberation Movement.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fatah ( FAH-tə, fə-TAH; Arabic: فتح, romanized: Fatḥ [ˈfʌtɑħ]), officially the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (حركة التحرير الوطني الفلسطيني, Ḥarakat at-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī l-Filasṭīnī), is a P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fatah al-Intifada (Arabic: فتح الانتفاضة, lit. 'Fatah Uprising') is a Palestinian militant faction founded by Said Muragha, better known as Abu Musa. Officially it refers to itself as the Palestinian …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah_al-Intifada

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; Arabic: منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية, romanized: ) is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organizat…

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Claim 6: “Dahlan, a native of Gaza’s Khan Younis refugee camp, served as Gaza security chief under Yasser Arafat in the 1990s”

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Multiple sources confirm Dahlan is from Khan Younis and served as Gaza's security chief under Yasser Arafat in the 1990s.

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web search NEUTRAL — Allegation of murdering Yasser Arafat. In June 2011 Dahlan was expelled from Fatah because of repeated claims by Mahmoud Abbas that he had murdered Arafat.[38] In September, his house was raided by th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Dahlan

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web search NEUTRAL — A native of Gaza’s Khan Younis refugee camp, Dahlan served as Gaza’s first security chief under former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the 1990s.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/7/10/will-mohammed-d…

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web search NEUTRAL — From there he joined Yasser Arafat and the exiled PLO/Fatah leadership in Tunis. Following his return to the occupied Palestinian territory in 1994 as part of the Oslo Accords, he was appointed to hea…
https://ecfr.eu/special/mapping_palestinian_politics/mohamme…

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Claim 7: “Husam Badran, the national relations official for Hamas, told Al Jazeera that the movement has recently held bilateral and collective meetings with groups that include Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the National Initiative and Democratic Reform, the Mohammed Dahlan-led breakaway Fatah faction.”

SINGLE SOURCE

While Al Jazeera is mentioned in the evidence as reporting on a delegation led by Dahlan meeting with Hamas, the specific list of all groups (PIJ, PFLP, National Initiative, etc.) mentioned in the claim is not fully corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Arabic: ميثاق حركة المقاومة الإسلامية حماس), referred to as the Hamas Covenant or Hamas Charter, was issued by Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Hamas_charter

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين, Ḥarakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn), commonly known simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is an Islamist Pales…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As Palestinians have not had a fully recognized state with a regular army, much of Palestinian political violence in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has taken the form of insurgency. C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence

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Claim 8: “Barghouti leads a hypothetical presidential race with 54 percent support, followed by al-Hayya at 26 percent and Abbas at 14 percent.”

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No polling data or evidence regarding these specific percentages for Barghouti, al-Hayya, and Abbas was found in the provided evidence.

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Claim 9: “They would mark the first such vote since January 2006.”

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Multiple sources confirm that the previous legislative elections were held in January 2006 and that the upcoming vote is the first scheduled since then.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict covers the period from 27 November 2024, when the 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement was signed, to 26 February 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israel–Hezboll…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the military wing …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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Claim 10: “Abbas in a July 9 decree called for Palestinian legislative elections to be held on November 28.”

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Multiple independent web sources and Wikipedia confirm that President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on July 9, 2026, setting the legislative elections for November 28, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Palestine in 2027 per a decree by President Mahmoud Abbas. Prior to this, they were most recently scheduled to be held on 31 July 2021 per a presiden…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Palestinian_presidential_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: مَحْمُود عَبَّاس, romanized: Maḥmūd ʿAbbās; born 15 November 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (Arabic: أَبُو مَازِن, ʾAbū Māzin), is a Palestinian politician who has bee…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas

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Claim 11: “28 percent of respondents believed Hamas is the most deserving to lead the Palestinian people, compared with 21 percent for Fatah under Abbas’s leadership”

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