RAMALLAH, West Bank — The frequency of threats and attacks against candidates in the Palestinian legislative elections has increased over the past few days, and internal parties are most likely behind them. However, none of the concerned parties (security forces or public prosecution) announced any of the results of their investigations into these incidents.
In Ramallah, in the central West Bank, unknown men attacked on April 15 the car of the head of the Unified Palestinian Movement list, Khaled Dweikat, while it was parked in front of his apartment in the Ersal neighborhood. Dweikat told Al-Monitor he was surprised to see “the back window of his car broken in the morning. We thought at first it was a shooting, but after some inspection, we figured out the attack was carried out with iron tools.”
