Three Arab men were killed in one inter-Arab violent incident in Gaza on Monday, and four more were injured in the Shomron city of Shechem (Nablus).

Clashes "erupted suddenly," eyewitnesses said, between feuding families in Khan Yunis - near the destroyed Jewish town of N'vei Dekalim - on Monday. When the gunfire quieted, two 27-year-old men and a 17-year-old boy were dead, and two seriously injured Arabs had been transferred to hospitals.

The fighting started when a Hamas member posted an Islamist pamphlet near a mosque loyal to Fatah.

Just hours later, fierce clashes erupted in Shechem between Palestinian Authority security forces and gunmen, leaving four men injured. Security guards stopped a car for inspection, and when they discovered the car was stolen, its occupants opened fire. The guards were unhurt, but their return fire injured two of the car's occupants. Shortly afterwards, gunmen targeted the city's main police station; two attackers were hurt. Due to continuous gunfire, shops in the city's downtown areas were forced to close. On Sunday, gunmen injured a policeman in Rafidia, a Shomron Arab village south of Shechem.

Fatah and Hamas formed a unity government last month, but this has not put an end to the months of lethal violence between the factions.