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Palestinians believe that the student council elections in universities are not limited to conveying students' demands within the campus, but they rather reflect the Palestinian factions' strength and influence on the Palestinian street, where competition between political forces Hamas and Fatah is fierce.
Many university elections were held in recent months, the last of which was in May in the Arab American University of Jenin in the northern West Bank, where Fatah's youth movement, Shabiba, won. Before that, in April, Hamas' student wing, the Islamic Bloc, won in Birzeit University, defeating the Shabiba movement.
