"Hamas are evil terrorists yet they had fair elections?" There was only one fair election in 2005, won by Mahmoud Abbas for a 4 year term!!!! Your friends Hamas took over by force in 2007, killing up to 116 opposition opponents. There HAVE BEEN NO ELECTIONS SINCE!
"Presidential elections were held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip of the Palestinian National Authority on Sunday, 9 January 2005 to elect the President of the Palestinian National Authority, to succeed Yasser Arafat, who had died on 11 November 2004.[1][2] The election was the first to be held since the 1996 general election, and voters elected Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Mahmoud Abbas for a four-year term.
The governance of the Gaza Strip since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007 has been carried out by Hamas.[1][2][3] The Hamas government in Gaza was led by Ismail Haniyeh from 2007 until February 2017, when Haniyeh was replaced as leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip by Yahya Sinwar.[4] As of November 2023, Yahya Sinwar continues to be the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip."
