Israel Pounds Hamas Targets in Gaza as Factional Fighting Resumes

 

AP     Smoke rises from Gaza building following Israeli airstrike.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel pounded Hamas targets with airstrikes Thursday, killing six people and wounding dozens as it stepped into intense fighting between the Islamic militants and the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Israeli attacks followed Hamas rocket barrages on southern Israel.

The strikes made it harder for Hamas gunmen to move around, and prompted accusations — on Hamas Web sites, radio and TV — that Abbas-linked forces are in cahoots with Israel. Hamas contemptuously called Fatah fighters the “Army of Lahad,” a reference to a Lebanese general allied with Israel in the past.

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