Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas responded on Tuesday to allegations of voting fraud and ordered Fatah authorities to suspend voting in primary elections in Jerusalem and two West Bank towns.
On Monday, primaries in the Gaza Strip were also canceled after gunmen stormed several polling stations following similar fraud charges.
Meanwhile, in yet another overnight raid in the West Bank, Israeli troops late Monday and early Tuesday arrested eight Palestinians.
Four of the men were members of the Islamic Jihad from a village south of the northern West Bank town of Jenin, two were Hamas members from Hebron, while two others were Islamic Jihad members, detained in a village northeast of Hebron.
Also on Monday evening, an explosive device was thrown at an Israeli military checkpoint in Hebron near a Jewish religious site, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, according to Haaretz. No injuries were reported.
Meanwhile in the Gaza Strip, mortar shells were fired at an Israeli community in southern Israel outside the Strip, damaging one Israeli home lightly. Israeli military reportedly responded by firing 40 artillery rounds at rocket launchers targets in the northern end of the Strip.
The mortar incident was the first such attack in two weeks.
