Mohammed Susi died after being shot in the head during the fighting
At least three people have been killed and 10 injured in heavy fighting in Gaza as rival Palestinian factions challenge the authority of Hamas.
Members of the Islamist militant group were involved in fierce gun battles in Rafah against Islamic Jihad and in Gaza City against a clan allied to Fatah.
The dead included a 13-year-old boy caught in the crossfire, medics said.
Seven people have been killed since Thursday in the worst clashes since Hamas seized control of Gaza in June.
The violence erupted last week when the Hamas Executive Force tried to arrest members of the Heles clan, which is allied to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement.
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool says Hamas has been trying to exert its authority on small clans in Gaza and to suppress the political and militant opposition by Fatah supporters.
However, the tension and animosity towards Hamas from these groups has been growing and intensified by the isolation of Gaza by the outside world, our correspondent says.
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