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Dozens of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Monday held demonstrations for the third straight day to protest the coastal enclave's ongoing power crisis.

In the southern city of Rafah, protesters called for the resignation of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's government over the crisis.

Meanwhile, in central Gaza, residents of the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps set tires alight in a demonstration held in front of Gaza's sole power station.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767611

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Twenty Palestinians have filed a lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority in an Israeli court, seeking up to $100 million in damages after they were detained for alleged collaboration with Israeli intelligence, a PA security officer told Ma'an on Sunday.

The officer in Qalqiliya, who wished to remain anonymous, said that 10 PA security officers were summoned to a Jerusalem court on Thursday last week to give testimony in the case.

Adnan Dmeiri, chief spokesman for the PA security forces, denied the report, saying he had not heard anything about the alleged case.

However, the security officer told Ma'an that the 20 Palestinians seeking damages had "fled" to Israel after they suffered harm during interrogations carried out by Palestinian security forces.

He said that a lawyer representing the Palestinians is asking that the PA award each of the plaintiffs 20 million shekels (around $5 million) in compensation for the harm they suffered, including psychological damage, as well as being denied contact with their families.

He said that the lawyer questioned all 10 PA security officers during Thursday's hearing. "(The officers) proved before the judge that the Palestinian judiciary found the suspects guilty of collaboration with the Israeli occupation," the officer said.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767587

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The crisis of leadership throughout Palestinian history did not start with Mahmoud Abbas and will, regrettably, be unlikely to end with his departure. Although Abbas has, perhaps, done more damage to the credibility of the Palestinian leadership than any other leader in the past, he is also a by-product of a process of political fraud that started much earlier than his expired Presidency.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/20733-palestines-crisis-of-leadership-did-abbas-destroy-palestinian-democracy

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As rumors spread that Mahmoud Abbas could soon step down as Palestinian president, a recent poll reveals that the leader holds support among just 16 percent of the Palestinian public.

Despite the low support rate, a continued decline in trust for the government and political leaders fails to surface any viable contenders for a potential successor, according to a poll carried out by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC) in August.

Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti was the strongest contender for presidential elections, holding 10.5 percent of the vote.

Ismail Haniyeh, PM of the Hamas-run government in the Gaza Strip, trailed close behind Barghouti gaining 9.8 percent support.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767398

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Palestinian Authority officials on Thursday denied Israeli media reports released last week on plans for a $13 million personal presidential palace to be built with government funds.

Palestinian leadership sources from the PA headquarters in Ramallah denied the claims that the structure was a personal palace for President Mahmoud Abbas.

The sources said the palace is instead projected to be used as a leadership headquarters and a facility to receive guests and world leaders.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767286

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As many as 81% of the Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territory believe there is corruption in Palestinian Authority institutions according to a recent survey, perceptions reinforced by the recently launched annual report of the Palestinian Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN), the Transparency International chapter in Palestine. These perceptions persist despite former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s much-touted state-building efforts to root out corruption - and are at variance with international reports finding that suggest improvement in good governance.

Tariq Dana makes the case that corruption is structural to the Palestinian body politic and pre-dates the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. He argues that the problem needs to be tackled at its roots and cannot just be addressed through conventional measures used in other countries, particularly against the background of prolonged Israeli colonization and occupation and the way in which Israel both reinforces and exploits corruption.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767165

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The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday accused Hamas of holding secret talks with Israel that would endorse the separation of Palestinian territories.

Arab and Turkish media have carried reports, picked up by Israeli media, claiming Israel and Hamas were holding talks.

The talks were reportedly aimed at reaching an eight- or 10-year truce, with Israel removing its blockade on the coastal Palestinian territory.

Israel on Monday denied it was engaged in "any meetings with Hamas, neither directly, nor via other countries or intermediaries".

But the PA weighed in on Tuesday, insisting there were talks that would cause Palestinian disunity.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767122

Abbas meets Israeli opposition leader in Ramallah

President Mahmoud Abbas met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Tuesday at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah.

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Are Israel and Hamas really talking about ending Gaza siege?

Israel and the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas may be close to a long-term truce for Gaza, an advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said.

Although murmurs of a such a deal have appeared in media for months, the official’s comments would appear to give them slightly more weight.

In an interview with Alresalah, a Gaza-based newspaper close to Hamas, on Monday, Yasin Aktay also said that Israel and Turkey were nearing a deal over Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara.

Israel’s May 2010 assault on the ship, part of a Gaza-bound flotilla, killed nine Turkish citizens and a Turkish teen who held US citizenship, badly damaging relations between the two countries.

The Turkish official said there had been significant progress toward a long-term truce that would end Israel’s 8-year blockade of Gaza.

Aktay, deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling AK party, said that the recent visit of Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal to Ankara was related to the effort.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/are-israel-and-hamas-really-talking-about-ending-gaza-siege

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A Palestinian rights group filed acivil lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority in request of one million dollars in compensation for a Palestinian that was allegedly tortured while in the custody of a PA detention center, a press release said Thursday.

The Civil Authority for the Independence of the Judiciary Body and Rule of Law (ISTIQLAL) said that their client,Ahmad Bilal Abd al-Malak al-Deek, had officially registered the lawsuit inNablus' First Instance Court.

Al-Deek, a student at Al-Quds Open University from the village of Kafr ad-Dik in the region of Salfit in the northern West Bank, was detained for five days in early July after he criticized the local government on his personal social media.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767013

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Another row is brewing between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, over the release of Avraham Mengitsu, an Israeli citizen who, according to Israeli military sources, ‘slipped into Gaza’ on September 7, 2014.

The circumstances of Mengitsu’s entry into Gaza remain unclear, especially since Hamas’ political leader, Khaled Mashaal, denied that the military wing of Hamas is holding the Israeli citizen.

According to Israel’s Defense Ministry, another Israeli is also being held in Gaza. A gag order on Mengitsu’s disappearance was just lifted, but another remains in effect regarding the other, allegedly, detained Israeli.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=766506

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Hamas security forces on Wednesday detained a Gazan journalist several months after she wrote a report critical of the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, her father told Ma'an.

After journalist Mushira al-Hajj wrote the article, the Ministry of Health filed a complaint against her to the Hamas-affiliated attorney general, her father Tawfiq said.

Tawfiq, who is a local poet, said that both he and his daughter were asked to apologize about the report, but they refused. He said that his daughter's arrest on Wednesday followed as a result.

Gaza-based rights groups said in statements that she would initially be detained 48 hours for questioning in the coastal enclave's Ansar prison.

Mushira al-Hajj, 28, has worked with a number of local media outlets. She is married and has a daughter.

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