Violence in Gaza, kills 2 Palestinians
Gaza,
Oct
18:
At
least
three
Palestinians
were
killed
and
30
wounded
in
Gaza
in
clashes
between
Hamas
Islamists
and
a
clan
loyal
to
Palestinian
President
Mahmoud
Abbas
of
Fatah,
hospital
officials
said.
A Hamas security officer and two members of a clan loyal to the secular Fatah movement were killed in the fighting in Gaza City, the officials said. A second Hamas officer was critically wounded, they said. Local residents said the fighting started when Hamas security forces tried to arrest one of the clan members.
Witnesses said the Hamas force fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at the clan members holed up in their houses. The clash is one of the biggest since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip after routing Abbas's forces in a brief civil war in June.
Reuter
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