However, the Hamas legislative victory led to a split between the two main Palestinian political parties, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank.

However, he added that there was no other way but to sit down and strike a deal, calling on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to enter negotiations.

However, he soon became involved in controversy, initiating protests advocating the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian territories.

However, many Christians still live in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories.

However, some form critics have disagreed, instead holding that only Palestinian Jews would have had any problem worshipping Jesus as God.

However, instead of joining the ranks of the Palestinian fedayeen, Arafat fought alongside the Muslim Brotherhood, although he did not join the organization.

However, in 1959, the group's existence was attested to in the pages of a Palestinian nationalist magazine, Filastununa Nida al-Hayat ( Our Palestine, The Call of Life ), which was written and edited by Abu Jihad.

However, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad ( who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid ), the Palestinian fighters crossed the border into Lebanon to join PLO forces in that country, where they set up their new headquarters.

However, the IMF did not claim that there were any improprieties, and it specifically stated that most of the funds had been used to invest in Palestinian assets, both internally and abroad.

However, a spokesman for the Institute of Radiation Physics stressed that the " symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not.

However, Palestinian Arabs, who fled the West Bank and Gaza after 1949 ( for example, during the 1967 Six Day war ) are under the jurisdiction of the UNHCR.

However, Shomaly goes onto state that there is no systematic recruitment and that senior representatives of the groups and the Palestinian community are against the recruitment of children as a political strategy, although in Shomaly's opinion the political leadership of the Palestinians could do more to discourage the use of children by paramilitaries by requesting that the leadership of the paramilitaries sign a memorandum forbidding the training and recruitment of children.

However, the Palestinians and Israelis had not yet agreed on the wording of the Letters of Mutual Recognition, which constituted an agreement in which the PLO would acknowledge the state of Israel and pledge to reject violence, and Israel would recognize the ( unelected ) PLO as the official Palestinian authority, allowing Yasser Arafat to return to the West Bank.

However, Cypriot politicians have frequently spoken out against Israeli military raids in the Palestinian territories as well as the 2006 Lebanon War, during which Cyprus was forced to manage a heavy flow of refugees and aid out of and in to Lebanon.

However, in July 2003, the truce unravelled after a Palestinian suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus left 21 people dead.

However, the interim process put in place under Oslo had fulfilled neither Israeli nor Palestinian expectations, and Arafat argued that the summit was premature.

However, Israel would retain around 9 % of Palestinian lands in exchange for 1 % of Israeli land.

However, following the fiasco of the Franco-Syrian War and the collapse of the Arab Hashemite rule in Damascus, his early position on pan-Arabism shifted to a form of local nationalism for Palestinian Arabs and he moved back to Jerusalem.

However, Shamir refused to concede the idea of a Palestinian state, and as a result was blamed by some ( including United States Secretary of State James Baker ) for the failure of the summit.

However, continuing violence and Israeli " target killings " of known leaders forced Abbas to pledge a crackdown in order to uphold the Palestinian Authority's side of the Road map for peace.

" However, he refused to disarm Palestinian militants and use force against groups designated as terrorist organizations.

However, the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government could not reach an agreement on the extension of the mandate, and the observers were therefore withdrawn on August 8, 1994

" However, Hamas later repudiated this offer and claimed they would never recognize Israel or compromise on their position that Israel needed to be dismantled and replaced by a single Palestinian state.

However, the Arab Independence Party was formed by Palestinian and Iraqi activists from al-Fatat as a direct result of the Jerusalem conference on 13 August 1932.

However, the monetary authorities will continue to be required to pay attention to the consequences of their actions with respect to our international balance of payments position and the outflow of gold, as well as with regard to avoiding the creation of excessive liquidity in the economy, which would delay the effectiveness of monetary policy measures in the next expansion phase of the business cycle.

However, to the extent that the monetary authorities, in their effort to ease credit in the next several months, conduct their open market operations in longer-term Government bonds, they will certainly act to accentuate any tendency for long-term interest rates to ease as a result of market forces.

However, since it is capable of being greatly altered and even discharged by heat, the color was believed by some authorities to be from an organic source.

However, the role of Western bishops as civil authorities, often called prince bishops, continued throughout much of the Middle Ages.

However, U. S. authorities denounced their act, assuring the French that they did not intend to assert American sovereignty over Clipperton.

However, in 2009, the family authorities decided not to agree to DNA testing.

However, most authorities consider Sagittarius to be the civilized Chiron, while Centaurus represents a more uncouth member of the species.

However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, with some 10, 000 Somalis deported under the pretext that they did not have valid identity cards.

However, over the last hundred years or so, authorities have recognized that the dagger, in its contemporary or mature form, has come to incorporate certain definable characteristics, including a short blade with a sharply-tapered point, a central spine or fuller, and ( usually ) two cutting edges sharpened the full length of the blade, or nearly so.

However, since Han's island is only partly in their jurisdiction, they are unable to conduct any formal investigations-Han will not allow firearms on the island, both to impede assassination attempts and to prevent the international authorities from gaining a justification to launch a raid.

However, the 22 can easily fit into distinct categories of over the two decades, based on the terrorist attacks in which they were, according to American authorities, involved.

However, the fasces, as a widespread and long-established symbol in the West, has avoided the stigma associated with much of fascist symbolism, and many authorities continue to display them, including the federal government of the United States.

However, critics believe municipal authorities have neglected needed maintenance on the city's aging sewerage system, and have speculated that more piping features are likely to develop unless action is taken.

However, Taiwanese authorities can be relatively lenient, one veteran police officer stating anonymously, " Unless someone complains about vandalism, we won't get involved.

However, after the French-German Armistice and the subsequent destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria by the British Navy in July 1940, the French-Moroccan authorities asked all Gibraltarian evacuees to be removed.

However the Legislative Council had few powers at this time, with government remaining fully in the hands of the colonial authorities.

However, they were captured, returned to the French authorities, and both Ogé and Chavennes were executed in February 1791.

However, in the case of free certificate authorities such as CACert, popular browsers ( e. g. Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer ) may not include the trusted root certificates, which may cause untrusted warning messages to be displayed to end users.

However, the Communist authorities in Poland would not permit him to travel to Rome to take part in person.

However as a result of intense pressure from the U. S. authorities, widespread efforts are currently being made to introduce systematic anti-money laundering initiatives on a global scale, to better curb the activities of the financiers of terrorism and those engaged in laundering the profits of drug smuggling.

However, none of these new local authorities has yet become fully operative.

However the Arizona authorities failed to do this even after they became aware that the LaGrands were German nationals.

However, Turkish authorities rejected his request to leave prison to attend.

However, a report from the French AFP news agency stated that " The Turkish judicial authorities still haven't explained exactly which legal resources he had access to ", and former minister of Justice Hikmet Sami Türk, in government at the time of Ağca's extradition, claimed that, from a legal viewpoint, his liberation was a " serious mistake " at best, and that he should have not been freed before 2012.

However, the contemporary Polish ethnographer Adam Chętnik accused the German authorities of abuses and falsifications during the plebiscite.