Palestinian citizens are heading to the polls to vote in local municipal elections for the first time since the outbreak of the Gaza war. The electoral lists do not include Hamas candidates, focusing primarily on Fatah-aligned figures and independents.

Palestinians take to the polls on Saturday, for the first time since the Gaza war, to vote in municipal elections. There are no Hamas candidates on electoral lists, which are mostly aligned with president Mahmud Abbas's secular-nationalist Fatah party or independents.