Following several meetings held in Cairo in order to advance the reconciliation efforts between Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah, the process of updating the electoral rolls kicked off on Monday, Feb. 12, in both Gaza and the West Bank.
While the registration voter records have been consistently updated on an annual basis in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank, it was the first time since 2007, the year when the Islamist party Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, that the Central Election Commission (CEC) operated in Gaza.