Four Palestinians killed in Hamas-Fatah armed clashes

At least four Palestinians were killed late Sunday night as a result of gunbattles between Hamas and Fatah loyalists which raged in Gaza City and Khan Yunis.

Palestinian gunmen shot dead a pregnant Palestinian woman and wounded her husband and his brother, a Hamas militant, in a shooting incident in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, hospital sources said.

Witnesses said gunmen, whose identity was unclear, shot at local Hamas leader Mohammad al-Ghalban as he was traveling in a car with family members after dark in the town of Khan Younis.

The motive for the shooting was not known, but local Hamas militia blamed rival Fatah gunmen for the attack and subsequently deployed in the streets as tensions rose in the impoverished town in the southern part of the coastal strip.


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