Three members of Hamas died Sunday when shooting erupted at the funeral procession for a member of the Islamist movement in a south Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp, the group said.
Hamas official Raafat al-Murra said militants from the rival Fatah movement "shot at the funeral procession" of a Palestinian killed in a blast Friday at the Burj al-Shemali camp, outside the port city of Tyre.Hamas and Fatah, the secular party led by Mahmud Abbas, have been at odds since 2007 when the Islamists seized Gaza after a week of deadly clashes.
One camp resident told AFP that there was a dispute "when the funeral procession arrived at the camp cemetery and suddenly there was shooting towards the crowd", but in the chaos it was unclear who was shooting at whom. A Lebanese military source had said that the explosion went off in an ammunition dump kept by Hamas militants alongside food and other stores."The fire caused damage to property but the impact was limited," Hamas said.
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