Thousands of followers of the Islamist movements Hezbollah
and Hamas staged a mass rally Monday in Beirut's southern
suburbs, vowing "resistance and not surrender"
to save the Gaza Strip from "Zionist aggression.""
We are not counting on anyone to save us in Gaza.
We are counting on our strugglers who will liberate
the whole land of Palestine," Hamas spokesman
Ousama Hamdan said. "
The resistance in Lebanon (Hezbollah) and the resistance
in Gaza (Hamas) are united and will break all our borders ...
to save Palestine," Hamdan said. The crowd who were
carrying Palestinian, Hezbollah and Lebanese flags were
shouting "Israel and the US are the mothers of terrorism."
Hamdan warned that the "day of punishment is approaching."
"Israel is the enemy of Islam," the crowd chanted in return
to Hamdan's speech. The crowd was protesting the attacks
by Israel on the Gaza Strip over the weekend during which
more than 100 people were killed. Hezbollah also denounced
the deployment of US warships off Lebanon's coast, saying it
would not be intimidated. The US military said last Thursday
that its navy was sending at least three warships, including
an amphibious assault ship, to the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
"(US) warships will not help (Israel) and our strugglers will
score another divine victory with God's will," Raad said.
Hezbollah is leading the Lebanese opposition in seeking to
topple the US-backed government in Beirut. The group
fought Israel in the 2006 war and is believed linked to
Muslim militants who attacked US forces and diplomats
killing about 270 in Lebanon in 1983-84 during the
Lebanese civil war. Meanwhile, in downtown Beirut,
Hezbollah schoolchildren took part in a demonstration
outside the UN headquarters to protest Israel's deadly
offensive in Gaza. Twenty schools participated in the rally,
organizers said. The children presented a letter to a UN
representative calling on the world body to take action.
"Where are children's rights?" asked one banner carried
by the demonstrators. "USA and Israel, the same face of
terror," read another. Tens of demonstrations also took
place in Palestinian refugee camps throughout southern
Lebanon on Monday. Hundreds of Palestinian students
took part in Hamas-organized demonstrations in the
Rashidiyeh, Bourj al-Shemali and al-Bass camps, near
the southern port city of Tyre. The demonstrators in
the al-Bass camp set ablaze portraits of US President
George W Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
while others burnt US and Israeli flags.
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