PALESTINIAN CIVIL WAR UPDATE

Palestinian student injured in Hamas-Fatah brawl (JPost)
Palestinian security forces trying to break up a brawl between thousands of Hamas and Fatah supporters opened fire Tuesday, wounding three students in the most violent clash between the rival groups in the West Bank since the fall of Gaza to Hamas last month. The clash erupted at An Najah University, the West Bank’s largest, in the city of Nablus.
It began when Hamas supporters staged a sit-in on campus and raised their movement’s green flags. Fatah activists demanded that the Hamas flags be removed, and a fistfight erupted.

Witnesses said students also threw chairs at each other. At some point, dozens of Palestinian security officers broke into the university and opened fire, the witnesses said.

Hamas, Fatah in Stalemate in West Bank - Ben Hubbard
Since the fall of Gaza to Hamas, Fatah is pushing hard to restrict Hamas' influence in the West Bank, but the Islamists, who have won control of several key towns in local elections since 2005, are too deeply rooted in Palestinian society to be sidelined easily. Immediately after the Gaza takeover, Abbas fired the Hamas-led government and ordered a crackdown on the group in the West Bank, including the arrests of dozens of Hamas militants. (AP/Washington Post)

See also Palestinian Gunmen Storm Fatah Offices in Gaza
Fatah officials said members of Hamas' Executive Force stormed the offices of senior Fatah lawmaker Ashraf Goma in Gaza on Monday. Goma was hit in the head with a rifle butt during the raid and at least three office workers were shot and wounded. (Reuters)