On 13 December the High Court ruled that cancelling the elections was illegal.
More than 80 villages were unable to produce candidate lists(a symptom, Hamas claims, of Fatah intimidation).
With 54.8 per cent of those eligible to vote turned out to cast their ballot[9] Ms Nour Odeh, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority said "We are still hoping that elections will be held in Gaza.
A person's right to vote cannot be held hostage to any political faction,".
[9] Hamas Government in Gaza has refused to recognise the election "as a legitimate expression of the Palestinian peoples' will."