In Beirut, hundreds of people, most of them wearing the iconic black and white Palestinian scarf known as the keffiyeh, carried caskets draped with black sheets that read "We are all Gaza" as they marched five kilometers from the Hamra shopping district to the Egyptian embassy.

The crowd grew as it weaved through the city streets behind a van blasting poetry by late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

"The people of Gaza are above the siege. Save them!" read one sign held up by a man in a wheel chair. "Open the Rafah Crossing" read another.

"Arab leaders, enough silence, the people of Gaza are dying!" the crowd yelled out as it headed to converge with other protests from around town.

Meanwhile, in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp located just outside of the southern city of Sidon thousands of Palestinians took part in a Hamas-organized rally, shouting out "Hosni Mubarak, just you wait. We are going to dig your grave."

Dozens of young boys were dressed as Hamas fighters with mock suicide bomb belts tied around their waists while others held fake Qassem rockets.

In the northern port city of Tripoli hundreds of people took part in a protest, while in Sidon dozens of ambulances drove through the town in solidarity with Gaza. -AP