A group of 25 gunmen affiliated with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah, some of them demanding jobs, others, unpaid wages, briefly infiltrated Gaza's main electric power plant on Monday, exchanging fire with security forces and wounding at least two people, officials said.
The gunmen managed to take over a part of the power plant, the main provider of Gaza's electricity. Palestinian security forces had called in more forces to help remove the gunmen, officials said. Two Palestinian security officials were wounded in the fighting, hospital officials said.
The gunmen left the power plant a short while later.
Meanwhile, a separate group of armed men took over a military hospital near the town of Khan Younis in Gaza.
No fighting was reported in the hospital incident, which ended a short while later.