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Protests in Lebanon Against Israel's Assault on Gaza

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Monday, 03 March 2008

Several hundred school children took part in a Hizbullah-organized demonstration outside U.N. headquarters in Beirut on Monday to protest against Israel's deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip. Twenty schools participated in the rally, organizers said. The children presented a letter to a U.N. representative calling on the world body to take action. The school pupils held aloft pictures of Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and of some of the children killed in Gaza since the dramatic escalation in violence last Wednesday. "Where are children's rights?" asked one banner carried by the demonstrators. "USA and Israel, the same face of terror," read another. The demonstration came after an estimated 116 people, including women and children, were killed in the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Israeli forces pulled out of the Hamas-run Strip on Monday but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the Jewish state will continue its military operations in the territory. Palestinians in the northern refugee camp of Beddawi also held a protest outside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the National News Agency reported. It said the protestors presented a letter directed to Arab League chief Amr Moussa urging him "to condemn the crimes" committed by Israel and "lift Gaza's blockade." On Sunday, about 1,000 Hizbullah supporters gathered at the border fence separating Lebanon and Israel to protest against the Israeli attacks. Thousands of Palestinian refugees also held similar demonstrations in their Ain al-Hilweh camp near the southern port city of Sidon calling for escalating attacks against the Jewish state.(AFP-Naharnet)

 

 

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