Gaza Strip ? Violence erupted in the Gaza Strip on Monday, with warring Palestinian factions firing at each other and kidnapping rivals, and gunmen abducting a foreign news photographer.

The clashes in the Jebaliya refugee camp near Gaza City broke a weeklong pause in the violent confrontation between the Islamic Hamas, which controls the government, and moderate President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah. In the past few weeks, 17 people have been killed in the internal fighting, leading to fears of civil war.

At least two people were wounded in the gunfire on Monday, security officials said, and reports of the numbers of Fatah and Hamas activists kidnapped ranged from three to 11.

In the past, kidnapped militants have usually been released unharmed.

Fatah-Hamas talks on a national unity government broke down several weeks ago. Frustrated by lack of progress, Abbas threatened to call an early election, but Hamas rejected that as an attempted coup and said it would boycott.

Before sundown Monday, gunmen abducted a photographer from the French news agency, AFP, in Gaza City. AFP identified the photographer as Jaime Razuri, 50, from Peru. An AFP reporter said the photographer was returning from an assignment in Gaza and was abducted at gunpoint as he got out of his car with his driver.