However, continued gun battles between Hamas and Fatah forces, at the same time calls were issue to end the fighting, left one Fatah supporter dead and four others injured in Jabalya, in northern Gaza.
The dead person was identified as Ahmen Ziyadeh.
Haniyeh told reporters that the Fatah forces were threatening the truce between the two factions and blamed Abbas supporters for violent clashes that took place throughout the day.
The so-called ceasefire had already been breached numerous times during the day by Haniyeh supporters, however.
Hamas fighters exchanged shots with Fatah forces outside the home of Fatah strongman Mohamed Dahlan within minutes after the ceasefire was announced overnight. Less than five hours later, there was another firefight at Abbas’s Gaza residence.
“For this agreement to hold … the deployment of services that have no connection to internal security must end,” said Haniyeh.
Ironically, Abbas said much the same thing during his meeting in Ramallah with British Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier in the day. “There are no winners or losers in these gun battles,” he said. “All the Palestinians lose.”
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The dead person was identified as Ahmen Ziyadeh.
Haniyeh told reporters that the Fatah forces were threatening the truce between the two factions and blamed Abbas supporters for violent clashes that took place throughout the day.
The so-called ceasefire had already been breached numerous times during the day by Haniyeh supporters, however.
Hamas fighters exchanged shots with Fatah forces outside the home of Fatah strongman Mohamed Dahlan within minutes after the ceasefire was announced overnight. Less than five hours later, there was another firefight at Abbas’s Gaza residence.
“For this agreement to hold … the deployment of services that have no connection to internal security must end,” said Haniyeh.
Ironically, Abbas said much the same thing during his meeting in Ramallah with British Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier in the day. “There are no winners or losers in these gun battles,” he said. “All the Palestinians lose.”
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