About 522,000 Palestinian voters participated in local elections in local councils in the occupied West Bank and the city of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, according to the Central Elections Commission.
Rami Hamdallah, the head of the commission, announced on Sunday that voter turnout in the West Bank reached 56 percent, a slight fall from the 58 percent turnout in the 2022 election. Nearly 1.5 million people are registered to vote in the West Bank, as well as 70,000 people in Deir El-Balah area, according to the commission.
Deir al-Balah was the only region in Gaza where the election was held, after more than two years of Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave of Gaza destroyed the infrastructure of the main cities including Rafah and Khan Younis, which made holding elections in those areas unfeasible.