A list backed by the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party won most races in the weekend’s Palestinian municipal elections, election officials said Sunday, in a vote that for the first time in nearly two decades included a city in the Gaza Strip run by rival Hamas. Saturday’s ballot marked the first elections of any kind in Gaza since 2006 and the first Palestinian polls since the war began more than two years ago with the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, terror onslaught in southern Israel. Abbas’s West Bank-based government said the inclusion of the Gazan city of Deir al‑Balah, which suffered less damage than other areas of the coastal territory during the war, was an achievement in itself and was intended to show that Gaza was an inseparable part of a future Palestinian state. Some 70,000 people were registered to vote in Deir al-Balah, according to the Ramallah-based Central Elections Commission (CEC).…