MSNBC News Services Updated: 6:24 a.m. ET May 9, 2006 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Nine people were wounded in a second day of fighting between gunmen from President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s Hamas on Tuesday, the most serious Palestinian internal strife since Hamas won power.
Meanwhile, Middle East peace brokers will meet on Tuesday to hammer out how to deal with a Hamas government, as pressure grows to pay beleaguered Palestinian Authority workers and Washington tries to hold its tough line on direct aid.
Several proposals, including a French one to allow the World Bank to channel funds to pay salaries, are expected to be presented at the meeting in New York of the so-called quartet of powers handling the Middle East -- the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
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