Last update - 00:00 01/09/2007
Egyptian man hit by stray bullet from Fatah-Hamas fighting in Gaza
By Reuters
An Egyptian man was shot and wounded in the border town of Rafah on Friday, hit by a bullet that strayed across the border from Gaza during a clash between Hamas and Fatah gunmen, Egyptian security sources said.
The sources said the 27-year-old man, Eissa Said Attiya, was shot while walking in the street near his house in a residential neighborhood just over the border in Egypt. He was in a stable condition in hospital, they said.
Factional tensions in Gaza continued to simmer on Friday when thousands of men from the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement used open-air Friday prayers to protest against Hamas' takeover of the Strip.