Hamas accuses PA intelligence of bombing PM's convoy

Gaza's Interior Ministry claimed senior intelligence figures from Ramallah were behind the assassination attempt on Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, yet the timing of the announcement has raised questions.
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Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas prepare to arrest the main suspect in an assassination attempt on Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, in the central Gaza Strip, March 22, 2018. - REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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Ahmed el-Komi
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Ministry of Interior and National Security in the Gaza Strip revealed the identity of a man suspected of being behind the attempted assassination of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in an April 28 press conference.

The ministry accused “senior figures of the General Intelligence Service in Ramallah” of being behind the bombing of Hamdallah’s convoy after entering the Gaza Strip on March 13. “The same people were behind the attempt to assassinate Maj. Gen. Tawfiq Abu Naim,” the ministry said.

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