Gunmen ordered off Gaza streets
Funeral held for Fatah commander after Haniya and Abbas reach a deal.
Religious leader shot
A Muslim religious leader was killed in a drive-by shooting on Friday as he walked out of a Gaza City mosque, witnesses and medical officials said.
A Fatah security forces commander and six of his men were killed on Thursday [AFP] |
Earlier on Friday, a funeral procession was held for Fatah members killed during an attack on the home on a commander in the Preventive Security Service.
Armed men besieged the home of Colonel Mohammed Ghareeb in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya blaming him for killing of a policeman loyal to Hamas.
Ghareeb made a desperate telephone call to Palestine TV as the men broke into his house.
“We urge you to stop them they they are criminals, they are killers,” he said before a gunshot was heard and the line went dead.
Ghareeb was killed along with six of his men.
Calls for revenge
As the procession passed his home on Friday a masked man fired shots into the air and called for revenge for the Fatah commander’s death.
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Fatah has blamed the special security service of Said Siyam, the Hamas interior minister, for Thursday’s attack and said there would be no further attempts at reconciliation between the movements until the killers were brought to justice.
Israeli troops used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds who had gathered near the West Bank separation barrier to demonstrate against its construction.