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Um elemento da policia palestina à direita caminha enquanto elementos do Hamas , ao centro, dispersam , manifestam da policia palestina.
Os confrontos entre esta e o Hamas provocaram 8 mortos em Gaza, um de outubro de 2006.


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Dias depois rebenta tiroteio entre Hamas e Fatah e a sede do governo palestino em Ramalah é incendiada.


Oito pessoas morreram quando elementos da Fatah e do Hamas se envolveram em tiroteio em Gaza.

Após este tiroteio elementos da Fatah em Ramala destroiem edificios governamentais ligados ao Hamas.



Os disturbios em Gaza iniciaram-se quando elementos da policia palestina controlada pela Fatah se manifestaram em Gaza contra o governo do Hamas e exigiram o pagamento de salários em atraso.
Elementos do Hamas começaram a dispersar a manifestação e em breve as duas forças ir-se-íam envolver em tiroteio.

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Gaza fighting between Hamas and Fatah kills seven people

Published: October 1, 2006
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Hamas militiamen's efforts to break up anti-government protests Sunday sparked running street battles across the Gaza Strip that killed seven people in the worst internal Palestinian violence since Hamas took power.

Militants from the opposition Fatah group retaliated by torching the Palestinian Cabinet building in the West Bank. The spasm of violence dampened already fading hopes for the creation of a national unity government between the two groups that could end crippling economic sanctions.

The fighting continued throughout the day and sent schoolchildren and other civilians in downtown Gaza City fleeing for cover.

"This is forbidden in Islam, we are in the holy month of Ramadan," said Majed Badawi, 33, who managed to escape uninjured after his car was caught in the crossfire. "It's a shame on Hamas, who call themselves real Muslims, and a shame of Fatah as well. Why are they fighting and over what? We are victims because of both of them."

Fatah and Hamas officials blamed each other.

"Nothing can justify this violence," said Tawfik Abu Khoussa, a Fatah spokesman.

Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the Hamas government, said the violence was "regrettable," but the Hamas force was acting with restraint when it was attacked.

"The protest today was beyond acceptable legal norms and turned truly into lawlessness," he said.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, spoke with President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, by telephone on Sunday evening and called for joint action to end the violence and the need to return to national unity government talks, Haniyeh's office said in a statement.

Hamas has been under fire since it took over the Palestinian Authority after its January election victory over Fatah.

Israel and the West, which view Hamas as a terror group, cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority, making it nearly impossible for the new government to pay its 165,000 workers.

Abbas, who was in Jordan on Sunday, has been trying to end the crisis by persuading Hamas to form a coalition government and to accept international demands to renounce violence and recognize Israel. Hamas has resisted compromising its radical ideology.

In recent weeks, civil servants — including members of the security forces, many of them Fatah loyalists — held expanding protests against the Hamas-led government to demand their back wages.

On Saturday, the Hamas-led government sent its 3,500-member militia into Gaza's streets to quash the protests.

Hamas set up its militia — which answers to the interior minister — after losing a power struggle with Abbas for control of Palestinian security forces. Since then, violence has sporadically broken out between Hamas' militia and the official police force, but it has never been as widespread as it was Sunday.

The fighting started in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, where dozens of police gathered outside the Bank of Palestine to demand back wages Sunday morning, protesters said. The Hamas militiamen ordered them to disperse and then opened fire at the protesters, who responded by shooting in the air, protesters said. Two bystanders were moderately wounded.

Fighting then broke out in northern Gaza, where a late morning gunbattle erupted between militia members and security officials.

The violence then spread to the parliament building in Gaza City, where security officers and civil servants were protesting. The protesters threw stones at nearby Hamas militiamen, who responded by hitting them with sticks and then by firing guns and anti-tank rockets and lobbing grenades at the protesters, according to an Associated Press journalist at the scene.

Militiamen and security personnel — including members of Abbas' elite bodyguard unit — began trading fire on two major streets nearby, and gunmen from both sides took positions on rooftops.

People scattered in all directions, and schoolchildren, some of them screaming, covered their heads with their schoolbags for protection.

Merchants closed shops, and downtown Gaza City was snarled in traffic. Plumes of acrid black smoke billowed up from cars that had been set on fire.

The clashes later spilled over to an area near the president's residence. Hamas militiamen scrambled up to the rooftop of the nearby Agriculture Ministry and began firing rocket-propelled grenades and rifles at the presidential guard.

"We are going to beat with iron fists all those elements who are trying to sabotage the election process of our people, those who are trying to destroy our public properties and close the streets," said Islam Shahwan, a spokesman for the militia.

The street battles killed a total of four people, including a presidential bodyguard and a 15-year-old boy, according to Dr. Baker Abu Safia, director of Gaza's Shifa Hospital.

Two other people were killed in related violence, and at least 75 people were injured, hospital officials said.

A seventh person, a member of the Preventive Security force, was killed Saturday night when the car he was in was shot by unknown gunmen, security officials said.

In response to the violence, Fatah protesters in the West Bank city of Ramallah marched to the Cabinet building — which had already shut down for the day — pelted it with stones, broke in and lit the second floor on fire. The militants threw files out the windows and witnesses could see pieces of furniture being thrown about.

A second building in the compound was also set ablaze.

Forced out by the flames and smoke, the militants moved to the nearby Education Ministry and torched a car on the way. They then trashed the offices of a Hamas newspaper.

In the northern West Bank city of Nablus, dozens of Fatah-allied gunmen fired in the air, closed a major road with burning tires and threatened to retaliate for any Hamas violence in Gaza with attacks in the West Bank, a Fatah stronghold.

Also Sunday, 15 Israeli tanks, three bulldozers and squads of troops moved into the northern Gaza Strip under cover of gunfire, Palestinian security officials said.

The army said the troops entered Gaza in a routine operation to prevent militants from firing homemade rockets into Israel.

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