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Mosque gun battle rages in Gaza
At least 13 people have been killed and at least 60 injured in a fierce gun battle in Gaza, emergency services say.
Eyewitnesses say hundreds of Hamas fighters and policemen surrounded a mosque where followers of a radical Islamist cleric were holed up.
They fired rocket-propelled grenades at the mosque and surrounded the leader’s house in Rafah, near the Egypt border.
It is thought that at least 100 supporters of the al-Qaeda-linked group, Jund Ansar Allah, were inside.
At least one Hamas fighter was killed by a grenade fired from the mosque but most of those killed were supporters of the cleric. One child was also killed.
The entire neighbourhood has been sealed off as the battle continues.
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