Lebanese take to the streets over Gaza

Source: Presstv.ir, 28-12-2008

As "Israel" pounded the Gaza strip, hundreds of angry protesters in Beirut took to the streets calling for a halt to the deadly strikes.
Saturday and Sunday saw "Israel" carryout massive air strikes on the Gaza strip killing at least 300 Palestinians and wounding nearly 800 others.
 
On Sunday, Police fired tear gas and used water to disperse the crowd who had gathered in front of the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. Some hurled stones at the anti-riot police who had taken their positions behind a barbed wire barricade. There have been no reports of casualties.
Egypt has been seen throughout the Middle East as "Israel"'s main accomplice in imposing a blockade on the costal strip since 2007.

Demonstrators wearing the traditional Palestinian black-and-white scarf known as the chafiyeh chanted 'God help our people in Gaza'.
Hamas representative Osama Hamdan told the crowd in Beirut that the movement had no choice but to fight.
"We have one alternative which is to be steadfast and resist and then we will be victorious," Hamdan said.

Thousands of demonstrators had earlier demonstrated near the UN headquarters in Beirut and the Palestinian refugee camp in the Bekaa valley.
They called on Egypt to open the Rafah crossing and voiced anger towards the Arab world's silence on the 'massacres in Gaza.'