Article: PALESTINE - Dec 31 - Leaders Call For Talks After Gaza Clashes.

Gaza remains tense after a night of clashes between gunmen of the rival Hamas and Fatah groups, while leaders on both sides called for a renewed dialogue. Seven Palestinians were killed and 40 were wounded in the clashes, according to Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, head of the emergency medical service in Gaza. Twenty-five were wounded by gunfire, and the rest were beaten, Hassanein said. A spokesman for the Hamas-run interior ministry, Ehab al-Ghsein, blamed Fatah for the violence, saying the fighting had started when Fatah supporters shot at worshipers emerging from a mosque in the southern town of Khan Yunis, killing a local Hamas leader, Mahmoud Abu Taha, and a 10-year-old ...

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