Factional Fighting Rages Despite New Cease-Fire BRIEFLY: JERUSALEM

Jun 12, 07:57 AM

Current Headlines: Factional violence raged in Gaza on Monday between the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, despite a new cease-fire that was supposed to have taken effect at 11 a.m.

Four Fatah loyalists and a member of the Executive Force, a Hamas police militia, were killed in clashes in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, according to Muawiya Hassanein, head of the medical emergency service in Gaza. In Gaza City, a Hamas member and a Fatah intelligence officer were killed, Hassanein said.

Earlier Monday, the office of Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas had come under fire in Gaza City while a cabinet session was under way, and gunmen fired on the Hamas-run Ministry of Culture and Sports. Nobody was wounded in those attacks.

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