GAZA CITY - A veteran French journalist working for the Liberation daily, Didier Francois, was wounded Sunday during heavy gunbattles between rival Palestinian factions in Gaza City.Francois, 46, a veteran reporter who has covered numerous conflicts around the world during more than two decades with the paper, received a bullet to his leg, he told AFP at a Gaza hospital. He was in satisfactory condition at GazaÂ’s Shifa hospital and was due to be transferred to Jerusalem later in the day.
Francois was reporting on heavy exchanges of gunfire between supporters of president Mahmud AbbasÂ’s Fatah faction and the ruling Hamas movement around the presidential compound and was about to leave the area when he was shot.
So which side is he on?