Fatah admits that they are pushing for PA elections to be held in Jerusalem as “a matter of sovereignty and ideology”

Text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page

Posted text: “[Official Fatah Spokesman Hussein] Hamayel said that the Fatah Movement is treating these [PA] elections as a battle with the Israeli occupation in Jerusalem and in all areas of the homeland. We will take our right by holding the elections in the capital in spite of the occupation…

Jerusalem is the center of all Palestinian activity, and we will not agree to there being an option, small or large, that will reduce our sovereignty over this city, which is the symbol and pinnacle of our honor with its mosques and its churches.

In response to those who want to fish in murky waters and pass around stories in order to pressure the Palestinian leadership so there will be elections outside of [Jerusalem], our response in Fatah is that it isn’t a matter of getting [more] votes, as there are many ways and the world of technology enables us to do this, but we consider this a matter of our sovereignty and our ideology in our city, and we will not agree to the belittlement of any one of our principles whose center and basis is Jerusalem.”