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Hezbollah rally calls for resistance in Gaza and not surrender
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. Posted by: Fred 2008-03-03 |
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