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| Demonstrations staged
across Lebanon in protest of Gaza attacks BEIRUT -- Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Beirut, southern Lebanon's Nabatieh and al-Jalil Palestinian refugee camp in the Bekaa valley, protesting the Israeli attacks on Gaza, NBN TV reported. Angry demonstrators called on Egypt to open Rafah crossing, and voiced anger towards Arab silence over the "massacres in Gaza," the report said. Most of the demonstrators are Palestinians who get out of their refugee camps move in areas under Hezbollah control. Hezbollah on Saturday called for prompt global and UN action against Israeli raids on Gaza Strip. "What is happening in Gaza Strip is an Israeli war crime and a genocide," a Hezbollah statement said. Hezbollah called on the Muslim world to "stand against Israeli barbarism to stop the ongoing massacre." Hezbollah second-in-command Sheikh Naim Qassem last week called for armed resistance to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza. -Xinhua |