(Ha'aretz) Arnon Regular and Gideon Alon - Hundreds of armed Fatah members, together with an angry crowd numbering hundreds more, attacked the headquarters of the Palestinian military intelligence in Rafah Sunday with gunfire, Molotov cocktails, and stones, in reaction to Arafat's appointment of his nephew, Musa Arafat, previously head of military intelligence, as head of the PA's Gaza security apparatus. 18 Palestinians were wounded in the fighting. Another group of armed Palestinians set alight the headquarters of military intelligence in Khan Yunis. Arafat annulled Musa Arafat's appointment on Monday.
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