GAZA (Reuters) - A handful of Palestinian journalists have reported receiving death threats for their critical coverage of the Islamic militant group Hamas since it began running the government in March, a press group said on Monday.

The Palestinian Journalists' Union said seven journalists in the Gaza Strip, mostly sympathetic to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, had received threats by e-mail, phone or fax -- made in Hamas's name -- to harm or kill them for their coverage...

...In recent years, some Palestinian reporters have been beaten over coverage, and a journalist who ran a government-funded magazine was killed in 2004. Victims of the violence said attackers came from various factions, including Fatah, and in one case, from Hamas. Members of the security services were also involved in some of the incidents, journalists said...