Palestinian forces clash

Rival Palestinian security forces clashed across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing seven and injuring 50 others, in the biggest outbreak of internal fighting in months over unpaid wages and stalled unity government talks. Palestinian Prime Minister...

Rival Palestinian security forces clashed across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing seven and injuring 50 others, in the biggest outbreak of internal fighting in months over unpaid wages and stalled unity government talks.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas, called on Palestinians "to be responsible and abandon their differences."

The clashes stoked fears of civil war as the rival forces, loyal to either Hamas or President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, exchanged fire from rooftops near the parliament building in Gaza City and set ablaze several government offices in the area and in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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