Monday, March 5, 2012

Rival Palestinian Factions Urged to Talk

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Saudi Arabia's king urged Palestinian rival factions Sunday to hold talks in the holy city of Mecca as fighting between the Hamas and Fatah movements persisted in Gaza with no clear winner emerging.

Hamas and Fatah gunmen battled each other across Gaza early Monday. Two Hamas fighters were killed overnight in the fighting as attacks were mounted on security compounds. An electrical transformer was knocked out by gunmen, plunging large parts of Gaza City into darkness.

Some of the most intense fighting took place outside the Gaza City headquarters of the Preventive Security Service, which a decade ago had led a crackdown on Hamas and is fiercely …

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