{"id":98403,"date":"2026-04-26T01:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/palestinians-vote-in-first-elections-since-gaza-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:23:00","slug":"palestinians-vote-in-first-elections-since-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/palestinians-vote-in-first-elections-since-gaza-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians vote in first elections since Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Palestinians in the West Bank and central Gaza voted in municipal elections on Saturday, the first since the Gaza war began, amid low turnout and a narrow list of contenders.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>According to the Ramallah-based Central Election Commission, about 1.5 million people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as 70,000 in Gaza&#8217;s Deir al-Balah area, had registered to vote. By 5 p.m., turnout in the West Bank reached 40.62%; But participation in Deir al-Balah was just 21.2%.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinians in the West Bank and central Gaza voted in municipal elections on Saturday, the first since the Gaza war began, amid low turnout and a narrow list of contenders.According to the Ramallah-based Central Election Commission, about 1.5 million people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as 70,000 in Gaza&#8217;s Deir al-Balah area, had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1987,3350,5223,2782,367],"class_list":{"0":"post-98403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-palestinians","11":"tag-vote","12":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98405,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98403\/revisions\/98405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}