NEWS ALERT: Dozens killed in Gaza as violence erupts between Hamas and armed clans

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From Fox News: Dozens have been killed in Gaza during violent fighting Sunday and within hours of the expected release of hostages in the war-torn region, according to local reports.

The clashes between local militias also came ahead of a televised address in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the imminent hostage release “the beginning of a new path.”

The Israeli president had cautioned, “The campaign is not over. There are still very great security challenges ahead of us.”

More from BBC.com: Eyewitnesses said the clashes erupted in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in southern Gaza City after a Hamas force of more than 300 fighters moved to storm a residential block where Dughmush gunmen were entrenched.

Residents described scenes of panic as dozens of families fled their homes under heavy gunfire, many of them displaced multiple times during the war.

“This time people weren’t fleeing Israeli attacks,” one resident said. “They were running from their own people.”

The Dughmush family, one of Gaza’s most prominent clans, has long had a tense relationship with Hamas, and its armed members have clashed with the group on several occasions in the past.

Fox News explained that members of the Doghmush clan said Hamas had targeted them over cooperation with Israel.

The Israeli outlet Ynet reported that 52 members of the Doghmush clan were killed and 12 Hamas militants were killed.

“We are trapped. I don’t know how they entered with all kinds of weapons. Where were they when the Jews were here? They arrested all the youths, lined them up against walls, pointed weapons at their heads. There is a massacre here,” one Doghmush clan member said.

Among those reportedly killed was the son of senior Hamas official Basem Naim.

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