A senior official with the Palestinian party Fatah is badly beaten up in the Gaza Strip on Monday, with the group accusing the strip’s Islamist rulers Hamas of responsibility.
Hamas denies the claim and pledges to investigate the attack, which comes amid days of violent crackdown by its security forces on protests in Gaza.
Atef Abu Seif, spokesman for Fatah in Gaza and a member of its central committee, was beaten by a group of men near his home in the enclave, the official Fatah-aligned Palestinian news agency Wafa says.
Pictures posted on Wafa show Abu Seif with a bandaged head and leg, with his clothes speckled with blood.
Mahmoud Aloul, deputy chairman of Fatah, accuses Hamas of carrying out an assassination attempt.
Iyad al-Bozum, spokesman for the interior ministry in Gaza, condemns the incident, telling AFP “the police are investigating the attack.”
Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since seizing it from Fatah in 2007, has faced a series of protests in recent days over rising prices.
— AFP
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