Official: Palestine's Elections to Be Held in Jerusalem Despite Netanyahu's Rejection

The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Palestinian "Fatah" movement, Jibril Al-Rajoub, said that "Palestinian elections will be held in Jerusalem against the will of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."

Al-Rajoub added that "there is a national consensus about holding elections in Jerusalem, and then let's make the battle between the occupation and the international community."

Regarding the file of the Cairo dialogues, Al-Rajoub said that there is "a set of issues that we want to discuss, and I hope that all delegations reduce the media statements, and our meetings are supposed to be closed."

He noted that "the Palestinian people will not tolerate and will not have mercy if the dialogue fails."

The Palestinian National Dialogue is going to start on February 8th in Cairo with an Egyptian invitation and sponsorship to discuss arrangements for Palestinian elections.

Yesterday, Tuesday, the Palestinian Central Elections Committee started training workshops for its employees who will carry out the field voter registration process scheduled for February 10 and will continue until February 16.

The Committee said that the trainees will supervise 300 field employees distributed in 80 information and voter registration centers in the 16 electoral districts representing the governorates of the West Bank and the  Gaza Strip.

Last week, the Central Elections Committee held 5 training courses for its new employees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip simultaneously, benefiting more than 130 employees, in preparation for the Palestinian elections 2021.

Al- Rajoub, expressed, in an exclusive interview to RT, an Arabic-spoken news website, his confidence in the success of the Palestinian national dialogue sponsored by Egypt, stressing that there is no alternative to national reconciliation.

He also affirmed that he "is confident that all Palestinian factions, headed by Hamas, are concerned with the success of this dialogue to save the Palestinian state project, because we have no choice but that, and our agenda in the dialogue is open."