Massive Anti-Zionist Demonstrations Held in New York
The protesters called on the United Nations to put an end to the Israeli regime's military and economic sanctions against the oppressed Palestinian nation.
The protesters which held the demonstrations under tight security of the New York police, chanted slogans in front of the Israeli office in the city and condemned the Zionist atrocities in the occupied territories.
Among the protesters were Muslim women with Islamic hijab while they were chanting "Dead to Israel" and "Dead to U.S." The protesters also asked the United Nations to implement its resolutions on the Zionist regime and stop the massacre of the people in the occupied territories.
The demonstrators who were more than four thousands, issued a resolution at the end of the demonstrations calling on the UN to pressure the Israeli regime to stop its sanctions against the Palestinians.
The demonstrations were sponsored by the pro-Palestinian groups in the U.S., including United State's Islamic Union, Church of American Arabs, and the Jewish Naturia Karta, etc.
Meanwhile, Australia said yesterday that the Palestinian refugees who burnt the Australian flag in West Bank had been misled about its position on their resettlement, Reuter said.
Experts say that the offer of Australia is similar to U.S. proposal that the Palestinian refugees be settled in Lebanon.
In Shebaa Farms, two Palestinian fighters of the Syrian-based group were killed and a third wounded by Israeli fire in Southern Lebanon Friday, a Lebanese security source said Saturday.
The incident came amid a four-month Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Israeli concern to prevent the conflict from spreading to its northern border.
It was the first time that armed Palestinians had been found in the area since the Israelis ended their occupation of Southern Lebanon in May last year.
The source said a Lebanese goatherd had found the bodies in a mountainous area near the village of Bastara, about a kilometer (0.6 mile) from the disputed Shebaa Farms area held by Israel.
One body had been recovered and cards proving membership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) were found on it, the source told AFP.
The other body, as well as the wounded man, named as Suheil Aabbad, were spirited away by the Lebanese Hizbollah movement, which has close links with the PFLP-GC.
Lebanese security sources said late Friday that the Israelis had hit the area round Bastara with tank shells and heavy machine-gun fire for some two hours, wounding a civilian.
The bodies of the two Palestinians were found only Saturday by the goatherd. They were wearing combat uniforms and carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and backpacks full of ammunition.
The goatherd had brought back one of the bodies in his truck, the security source said.
Two cards were found on it, both bearing the same photograph, but different names, Mohammad Jabr abu Qandil and Mohammad Jabr Salameh, both born in 1981.
According to witnesses, a PFLP-GC mission order dated January 23 authorizing the fighter to leave Syrian soil was also found on the body.
A PFLP-GC spokesman in Beirut refused to comment "for the moment" on the incident.
Indian troops of the United Nations interim forces in Lebanon went to the scene and were guarding the second body when Hizbollah members in civilian clothes took it away.
Lebanese security sources said the Israeli Army had apparently opened fire when it spotted the men in the mountains by means of its sophisticated surveillance system.
Ahmad Jibril's Damascus-based PFLP-GC split from George Habash's PFLP in 1968. It has bases in Lebanon and is violently opposed to the peace process and the Leader of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat.
Hizbollah kidnapped three Israeli soldiers on October 7 in the Shebaa Farms area and killed another in an attack ten days later.