GAZA, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of residents attended a Hamas rally in Gaza Friday as gun battles continued between warring factions in the Palestinian Authority.
At least 20 people were reported wounded, two of them critically, in fighting in Ramallah and Gaza, YNet news reports.
At the rally in Gaza, the chairman of the Hamas faction in parliament accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of declaring war on the will of the Palestinian people.
Khalil al-Haya accused members of the Presidential Guard of launching an assassination attempt against Prime Minister Haniyeh on Thursday. The attempt failed but one of Haniyeh's bodyguards was killed and his son and several others were injured.
"We will fight with force for the voter's choice against those who want to bring about a coup," Haya said.
