Hamas and Fatah Leaders Call for Calm After Clashes
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 17 â After a day of rallies and violent clashes in Gaza between supporters of Hamas and Fatah, with both sides trying to send messages of strength following a presidential order for early elections, leaders called for calm this evening.
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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas says two of its fighters died in clashes with Israeli forces in Gaza.
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The militant Palestinian group Hamas said Friday it was setting aside its differences with ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and called for a united Palestinian leadership to work toward general elections.
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SundayÂs clashes were among the most severe between the Palestinian factions since Hamas won the vote.
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Hamas and Fatah leaders said after talks on Friday they agreed to revive a ceasefire deal that fell apart after a day of fierce fighting.
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Fighting erupted in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday and a Hamas gunman was killed, the first fatality in such clashes since the Islamist movement agreed with its Fatah rivals to form a unity government a month ago.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Four Palestinians, including two supporters of rivals Hamas and Fatah, have been killed in a family feud, threatening the calm that has accompanied a power-sharing deal between the two groups.
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Gun battles between Hamas forces and those loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah raged on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, where six fighters were killed before both sides issued new pledges to hold their fire.
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A top Hamas leader accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on Friday on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.
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Senior officials from rival Fatah and Hamas factions agreed on Saturday to pull their gunmen off the streets of Gaza and halt bloodshed which has killed 23 Palestinians in the last three days.
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Hamas and Fatah gunmen battled each other in the streets Sunday, having sent civilians fleeing from their homes in an increasingly bloody power struggle that left more than two dozen Palestinians dead over the weekend
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The incident further inflamed tensions between Fatah and Hamas that had been escalating.
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Gunbattles raged in Gaza on Saturday as senior officials from the rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas met to try to curb an intensifying power struggle which has killed 23 people in three days.
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Gun battles between Hamas forces and those loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah raged on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, where at least six fighters were killed, reviving fears of civil war.
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Gunmen from rival Palestinian factions killed three people and wounded at least 22 others in the Gaza Strip and West Bank on Monday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas appealed for an end to the internal fighting.
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The leading Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agreed to a cease-fire after street battles left at least two people dead, leaders of other parties involved in the talks announced early Monday.
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Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group, escalating a power struggle marked by the worst internal violence in Gaza and the West Bank since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994.