Four dead in Gaza factional violence

Source: Reuters

Four dead in Gaza factional violence
13 May 2007 15:53:03 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Recasts to add details, Hamas official abducted in Gaza)

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA, May 13 (Reuters) - Four Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday
and a Hamas official was abducted from his home in the deadliest outbreak
of factional fighting in the coastal strip in months, sources from Hamas
and the Fatah group said.

Gunmen killed a senior commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and another
member of the Fatah-linked militant group in an attack it blamed on the
rival Hamas movement.

Abu Qusai, spokesman of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said the Brigades held
Hamas's armed wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, and its executive
force responsible.

The Qassam Brigades denied being behind the attack.

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Source: Reuters

Two killed as Gaza fighting goes on despite truce
Mon May 14, 2007 2:16AM EDT

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) - Two Palestinian gunmen were killed in Gaza
on Monday in fighting between the rival Hamas and Fatah groups,
despite an Egyptian-mediated truce aimed at ending the deadliest
outbreak of factional violence in months.

Sources in President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah said tensions were
so great with Hamas, its power-sharing partner, that their unity
government could collapse within days if the bloodshed did not
stop.

In the latest violence, dozens of Hamas gunmen exchanged fire
with Fatah security officers and bodyguards of Maher Meqdad,
a Fatah spokesman, in Gaza City.

Hospital officials said two of the security officers were killed
and 10 people were wounded.

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