PALESTINIAN CIVIL WAR WATCH, PART XXXII

Fatah gunmen fire guns, defying Hamas PM.

GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement fired off guns in a show of force in Gaza on Saturday, defying orders from Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to stay off the streets. The militants demanded Haniyeh arrest members of a rival group they blamed for deadly clashes in which three people died, violence that has posed a major challenge for Islamist militant group Hamas now in charge of the Palestinian government. About 300 gunmen shot repeatedly into the air as Fatah strongman Samir al-Mashharawi threatened to take measures if Haniyeh failed to arrest a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, a rival group he blamed for Friday’s gunbattle.