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Leader · 09-10-2005, 23:25 PM

Gunmen open fire at Palestinian ministry

Sat Sep 10,10:57 AM ET

Gunmen opened fire in a drive-by shooting outside the Palestinian interior ministry offices in Gaza City although no one was injured.

"A car drove past the interior ministry's press centre and unidentified gunmen opened fire," ministry spokesman Tawfiq Abu Hosa told AFP on Saturday.

"Bodyguards responded to the fire," Hosa added, but said the vehicle and its occupants managed to escape unharmed.

The shooting was the latest example of increasing lawlessness in Gaza City where the rivalry between the radical Islamist movement Hamas and the governing Fatah faction is intensifying.

A Palestinian Authority official had earlier accused Hamas of being behind the assassination on Wednesday of former national security chief Mussa Arafat, an advisor to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.

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