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Gaza City - One Palestinian was killed on Thursday following armed fighting between Hamas gunmen and members of security forces loyal to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, security and medical sources said.
Khader Afana, 40, a preventive security officer, was standing at his post in central Gaza City when Hamas gunmen shot him, a security source said.
He died shortly after his arrival at Shiffra hospital from abdominal wounds, a medical source said.
Elsewhere, two members of security forces loyal to Abbas and a third person were wounded in the southern Gaza Strip town of Abassan after fighting broke out with gunmen loyal to the Islamist movement, another security source said.
A security official accused members of the armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, of having opened fire on a car in which the two members were travelling. The third wounded person's identity was not immediately known.
Three members of Abbas's Fatah party were also wounded overnight on Wednesday by Hamas activists in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis, sources said.
Repeated clashes this month between Hamas and Fatah followers have led to fears of Palestinian civil war.
Eleven people have died in the Gaza Strip in the past few weeks in factional violence pitting armed members of Fatah against those from the radical group Hamas.
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