RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 21 (AFP) - Palestinian deputies called for a new government Wednesday as they started debating a damning report on a spiralling security crisis highlighted by the shooting of a former minister.
Marwan Kanafani, head of the Palestinian Legilative Council`s political committee, began reading the report, compiled by several MPs, that called for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "to accept the resignation of the current government and the formation of a new government."
Parliamentary sources said that the government of prime minister Ahmed Qorei, who has submitted his resignation to Arafat in a power struggle over control of the security services, could face a formal no confidence motion.
The report said that the current government had completely failed to tackle the lawlessness in the territories, the sources added.
The state of chaos was rammed home late Tuesday when one of the report`s authors, former information minister Nabil Amr, was attacked by gunmen in Ramallah.
The report also called for "Palestinian factions to stop firing rockets from the Gaza Strip" into Israel.
Israeli troops took over the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun late last month after such rockets killed two people in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, just across the border.
Another such makeshift rocket landed into a house in southern Israel Wednesday morning, only causing material damages, Israeli military sources said.