"Israel" Attacks Gaza, Peretz Ousted

Source: alalam.ir, 29-5-2007
GAZA CITY -The "Israeli" occupation late Monday staged an air raid in the north of the Gaza Strip on a building housing a sports club, Palestinian security sources said.
Four Palestinians, including a woman and a child, were wounded in the raid, which destroyed the building, the sources said.
The Zionist regime has carried out 61 deadly airstrikes on Gaza over the past two weeks, which have so far martyred 46 Palestinians, the majority of whom are civilians.
Meanwhile, the Zionist regime`s war minister Amir Peretz was ousted as labor party chief.
The defeat left an ex-premier and a former general neck and neck in a key primary which threatens the regime`s prime minister Ehud Olmert`s ruling coalition, official results showed Tuesday.
Peretz came in a distant third in Monday`s primary, with former prime minister Ehud Barak and former domestic security chief Ami Ayalon heading to a run-off ballot, according to a near-complete official count.
Based on a count of 99.7 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said Barak had won 35.7 percent, Ayalon 30.7 percent and Peretz 22.3 percent.
A candidate needed to garner at least 40 percent of votes cast to avoid a second-round ballot which would take place in two weeks.
Peretz -- whose ratings have dropped to single digits after a regime inquiry blasted him for failing in his duties during last year`s Lebanon war -- received between 17 and 19 percent.
Barak is hoping to stage a political comeback after a six-year absence, while Ayalon is aiming to burst on to the political stage having never held senior political office.
Barak and Ayalon have warned that they would pull labor out of Olmert`s coalition cabinet unless the beleaguered premier steps down in the wake of a biting report of his handling of the Lebanon war.
Ayalon has vowed to do so immediately and Barak has said he would serve in Olmert`s regime as war minister until early elections are held.
Should labor and its 19 MPs quit the regime, it would leave Olmert`s coalition with the support of just 59 MPs -- two short of a majority in the 120-seat parliament.
This would leave Olmert with three options -- to resign, to try to form a new right-leaning coalition or to call new general elections.