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Lebanese news
Camps call for right to fight in occupied
Palestine
Mohammed Zaatari
Daily Star correspondent
Thousands of enraged Palestinian refugees
demonstrated in camps throughout Lebanon
on Friday, asking to join the uprising against
Israel in the occupied territories and denouncing perceived US backing of
the Jewish state’s “savagery.”
Members of Fatah, other factions of the Palestinian Liberation
Organization, and various other Palestinian groups particularly
representatives of the Popular and the Democratic Fronts participated in
what was billed as a “march of wrath and national unity.”
The marchers protested Israel’s helicopter missile attacks against
Palestinian command centers on Thursday in retaliation for the mob killing
of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah.
They carried banners condemning the Israeli “massacre” and calling on
Arab countries at peace with Israel namely Egypt and Jordan to sever
relations.
“Bashar, Lahoud open the borders.” the crowd shouted in unison, in a call
directed at President Emile Lahoud and Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“Beloved Saddam, destroy Tel Aviv,” they chanted in the streets of the
Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon, referring to Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein.
On Thursday, Iraq offered to send more than 1 million volunteers to join a
jihad against Israel alongside the Palestinians.
A group of youngsters waved Palestinian flags
while carrying models of the Scud missiles
that Saddam fired on Israeli cities during the
1991 Gulf War, while others torched the
Israeli and US flags.
“I’m doing this for Jerusalem and for
Mohammed al-Durra” said 12-year old
Mohammed Awad, referring to a Palestinian
boy who was killed by Israeli soldiers while sheltering in his father’s arms.
The protesters carried large effigies of US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak with blood running from
their teeth.
Others set fire to an effigy of Barak wearing a T-shirt splashed with red
and the words “specialized in murdering children” and to another effigy of
Albright.
“The Arab countries should open their borders so that the Palestinians of
the diaspora can efficiently help the uprising of their brothers in the
Palestinian territories confronting the Israeli occupier,” said Mounir
Maqdah, a senior Fatah military officer based in Ain al-Hilweh.
Fatah and the PLO’s secretary in Sidon and the South, Khaled Aref, said
that what has happened in occupied Palestine is a “real war declaration
that will only increase our people’s attachment to their right of
establishing the Palestinian state and its capital, Jerusalem.”
“It is out of the question for Fatah Movement to launch operations on the
Lebanese-Israeli border,” he added, saying such operations would require
coordination with Hizbullah and the Lebanese government.
Demonstrations also took place in the North, where some 3,000
Palestinian refugees protested at the Beddawi camp in Tripoli, calling for
armed struggle against Israel and the declaration of a Palestinian state.
Refugees at the Nahr al-Bared camp, also in the North, organized a sit-in
during which they announced the “death” of the Oslo peace accords
between Israel and the Palestinians.
In Baalbek, about 200 demonstrators burned the US and Israeli flags after
Friday prayers. With agencies
DS 14/10/00
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