The backlash against Abbas’s attendance at Peres’s funeral expresses the despair many ordinary Palestinians feel with the status quo.

The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, though a new date for the suspended polls was not set.

Palestinians will “defeat the occupation” and establish a state with Jerusalem as its capital, hopefully as early as 2017, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday.

Hebron University in the West Bank has postponed its student elections after those affiliated with Fatah’s and Hamas’ student blocs refused to abide by the university’s decision to separate university elections from national politics.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior leader in the Gaza Strip, told Iranian TV: “This man who claims to represent Palestinian public opinion is by religious standards a Jew. For the millionth time: He doesn’t represent us, he is a creation of Israel and I hope he joins Peres in hell.”

In one East Jerusalem neighbourhood, settlers have been trying for years to drive Palestinians out, family says.

A new Israeli labor regulation continues a trend of increasingly suspending rule of law for Palestinians in the West Bank, in this case leading to further segregation in access the courts.

Republican senators introduced legislation that would withhold funds from the Palestinian Authority until the secretary of state certified that the PA was not rewarding terrorists or their families for attacks on Israelis and Americans.

“By refusing to attend the funeral, leader of the Joint List Odeh was protesting the myth of Shimon Peres, who enjoyed the global brand of peacemaker after Oslo, but walked away when things didn’t exactly work out,” writes Dahlia Scheindlin.