 Dozens of gunmen have taken over a West Bank office of the Palestinian election commission to protest over President Mahmoud Abbas's choice of candidates for an upcoming parliamentary election. The gunmen from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Dr Abbas's Fatah movement, said they seized the al-Ram office to demand the inclusion of candidates representing neighbouring Jerusalem on the list of those contesting the January 25 vote. Election officials said the gunmen had insisted they would stay in the office until the candidates they want appear on the list. "We are very annoyed. Fatah should solve their internal differences outside our offices," Ammar Dweik, a senior election official, told Reuters. |