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Exact day20 January 1996
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 20 January 1996 Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip voted in their first general elections, for the Palestinian Legislative Council and the head of the Palestinian Authority. The Council was inaugurated on 7 March.
The United Nations study records that Israel’s troop withdrawals from all the major West Bank cities but Hebron paved the way for the first Palestinian general elections on 20 January 1996 and for the inauguration on 7 March of the Palestinian Legislative Council. The Secretary-General said the widespread participation of voters in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem was an important step toward the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.12
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Within a yearThe Interim Agreement (Oslo II), The tunnel under al-Aqsa
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United Nations · section: D. Interim Agreement (Oslo II)
Original-language quotation · enpaved the way for the holding of the first Palestinian general elections on 20 January 1996 and for the inauguration on 7 March of the Palestinian Legislative CouncilLink to this citationUnited Nations · section: B. The right to self-determination, including to a State, as an inalienable right
Original-language quotation · enthe widespread participation in them by Palestinian voters in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem constituted an important step toward the achievement of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian peopleLink to this citationdocument · United Nations
The United Nations study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, part V, as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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