Beirut - Hundreds converged at the United Nations building
in Beirut on Sunday to protest Israel's deadly raids on the Gaza
Strip and show solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Dozens of soldiers and other members of the security forces were
deployed to the UN headquarters in downtown Beirut. The protesters,
mostly from the Sunni groupings in Lebanon and Hamas were kept
several hundred metres (yards) away from the building.
Men riding motorbikes and carrying black flags, wearing the
traditional Palestinian headdress and chanting 'God help our people
in Gaza,' were among the protesters.
One of the protesters told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, 'We are
here to show our solidarity with the oppressed people of Gaza and ask
the world community to intervene to stop the bloodshed.'
'Where the Arab leaders?' a placard carried by the protestors
read.
The UN Security Council early Sunday called for an immediate end
to all military actions in the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday, followers of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah Movement held
a rally in Beirut's southern suburbs in support of the Gaza
population following Israeli airstrikes.
Similar protests were held in several Palestinian refugee camps in
Lebanon. Some 367,000 Palestinian refugees live in 12 camps across
the country.
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