Will Fatah and Hamas run together in the parliamentary election?

Senior officials of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction have expressed opposition to the idea of running in a joint list with Hamas in the parliamentary election, scheduled to take place on May 22. Sources close to Fatah and Hamas said in the past few days that they do not rule out the possibility that the two rival groups would form a joint list that would run in the election for the parliament, known as the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Nasser al-Qudwa, member of the Fatah Central Committee and a nephew for former PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, rejected the talk about a joint list with Hamas,...