The inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are caught in a maelstrom of internecine feuding between gunmen of Hamas and its Fatah rivals, loth to accept the electoral defeat they suffered earlier this year.

• 由于不愿意接受今年年初遭受的选举失败，哈马斯的世仇对手法塔赫与持枪的哈马斯成员在加沙城不断进行械斗，加沙居民深受这种械斗之苦。