As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas turns 90, 80% of Palestinians want him to resign after 20 years in power.

Weakened by Israel and barred from postwar Gaza governance, Abbas presides over a Palestinian leadership vacuum amid fading statehood hopes.

Abbas promised elections and reforms, but 60% of Palestinians doubt they will happen.

CAIRO — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas turned 90 this weekend, still holding authoritarian power in tiny pockets of the West Bank but marginalized and weakened by Israel, deeply unpopular among Palestinians and struggling for a say in a postwar Gaza Strip.

The world’s second-oldest serving president — after Cameroon’s 92-year-old Paul Biya — Abbas has been in office for 20 years, and for nearly the entire time has failed to h

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