(Ma'an News-PA) Hundreds of supporters of Mohammed Dahlan, a dismissed leader of the Fatah movement in Gaza, marched in central Gaza on Thursday, demanded presidential elections, and burned pictures of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Dahlan once headed the PA preventative security forces, but fell from grace in June 2007 after the humiliating rout of his forces by Hamas fighters who took control in Gaza after fierce street battles. Dahlan has called to stop security coordination with Israel, and said he considers the Oslo Accords to be invalid. A 2016 poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 64% of Palestinians support Abbas' resignation, but only 4% support Dahlan to be his successor.
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