(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Hamas and Fatah traded allegations of irregularities and voting fraud as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians headed to the ballot boxes on Thursday to elect 84 new municipalities and village councils in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. More than 2,500 candidates ran in the elections, 400 of them women. Hamas leaders said that many of the candidates who ran on an independent ticket were actually members of their movement.
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