Palestinian gunmen moderately wound Fatah official in Gaza carjacking

Palestinian gunmen ambushed a top union leader as he drove in the Gaza Strip on Friday, moderately wounding the man before fleeing in his vehicle, officials and relatives said.

There was no claim of responsibility for the shooting of Ghassem Bayrie, head of the 45,000-member national Palestinian labor union. But Bayrie is a prominent Fatah loyalist in the Gaza Strip and has feuded with the rival Hamas movement in the past. Palestinian police said Bayrie, 50, was driving in a union

minivan with his family when they were ambushed. Bayrie was shot in the leg. (AP)