[Reuters] Nidal al-Mughrabi - Hamas gunmen killed at least eight members of Mahmoud Abbas' Presidential Guard on Tuesday at a training base near the Karni Crossing as Palestinian factional fighting threatened to spill into full civil war. "They are attacking the headquarters and the crossing with RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) and mortar bombs....I warn of a massacre here (by Hamas)," Ali al-Qessi, a Presidential Guard spokesman, said in a call for help on Palestinian television. The U.S. has earmarked millions of dollars to provide training and non-lethal equipment to the Presidential Guard.
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