A few hours after receiving loans and advanced payments, hundreds of Palestinian security members took to the streets again on Saturday morning to ask for full payment of their delayed salaries, witnesses said.

The protests in central Gaza Strip witnessed riot and chaotic actions as five security members were wounded in a grenade explosion.

The witnesses said that a militant threw a grenade on a group of protesting officers after the militant who was on his way to Gaza City was refused by the demonstrators to go through.

The demonstrators also set fire to wheels, blocked main roads in Gaza and opened fire into air.

In Gaza's border town of Rafah, the unpaid employees forced a number of stores to close and throw stones at the car of Attalla Abu al-Sabeh, Culture Minister in the Hamas-led government.

The government, which faces western sanction and lacks foreign aid, condemned the attack against Abu al-Sabeh.

"Such immoral behavior by mobs shows the level of decadence by some of those who use violence against the ministers and lawmakers, " a statement issued by cabinet spokesman Ghazi Hamad said.

The governing Hamas movement also condemned the protests by the security officers, considering the protests as contribution to western and Zionist efforts to topple the Hamas-led government.

In the statement, Hamas even called on Interior Minister Saeed Siam to take legal actions against the "trouble-makers."

Source: Xinhua