Gunmen kill Hamas-linked judge in Gaza

Palestinian gunmen opened fire outside a courthouse in the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip today, killing a Palestinian judge affiliated with Hamas, witnesses said.

The drive-by shooting came two days after the killing of the three young children of a Fatah-allied Palestinian intelligence officer, sparking renewed clashes between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions and raising the spectre of a civil war among Palestinians.