Anger of Islam against Israel and the USA: pro-Palestine protests, from Lebanon to Jordan

THE PROTESTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD AGAINST ISRAEL AND THE USA

• Protests around the world do not stopescalation of violence in the Israel-Hamas clash which yesterday evening, 17 October, led to the explosion that hit theAl Ahly hospital in Gaza City, causing almost 500 victims. While the two warring parties pass off responsibility for what happened, i Islamic countries they continue to fall in the square. In photo: Sidon, Lebanon

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LEBANON/1

• During the night there were protests in Lebanon, where demonstrators gathered outside theUS embassy in Beirut. The anger of the Islamic people is also directed towards Washington, considered jointly responsible for what is happening in Gaza due to his support for Israel. Just today the US president Biden met with Netanyahu and underlined that Hamas was believed to be behind the attack on the hospital by the United States. Meanwhile, demonstrations continue across the country. In photo: Sidon

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LEBANON/2

• And this afternoon we returned to protest Beirut near theUS Embassy. L‘Orient le Jour online Talks about clashes and violence with the army, who allegedly beat some protesters with batons and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd. The movement of Hezbollah pro-Iranians then called another rally for today (in the photo) with thousands of their followers today in another area, on the southern outskirts of the city: “Thousands of us are ready for war“Shaykh Hashem Safieddin told the crowd

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WEST BANK

• Also in West Bank the protests do not stop, in which many children also participate. People are asking the government to Abu Mazenwhich controls the area, to raise its voice and intervene concretely in Gaza. In photo: Nablus, West Bank

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IRAN/1

• The Iranian president Ibrahim Raisi he defined the US “complicit in Israel’s crimes” in Gaza. During the night in Tehran he protested in front of the English and French embassies. In photo: the protests during the night in Palestine Square, Tehran

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IRAN/2

• “The bombs falling on the population of Gaza are American. The world considers the United States complicit in the crimes of the Zionist regime,” President Raisi said while addressing several thousand protesters gathered in Tehran’s Enghelab Square. In photo: protests in Tehran

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JORDAN

• To Ammanin Jordan, 5 thousand gathered in front of the Israeli embassy. Jordan, which has a peace treaty with Israel, said last night that Israel “is responsible for this serious incident.” Biden canceled his trip to Amman

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EGYPT

• Thousands took to the streets and squares in Cairo, Egypt, and in other areas of the country, where – as in Morocco – Israeli staff were evacuated from the embassy. In photo: Alexandria, Egypt

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Türkiye/1

• While Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for an unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during his speech at the extraordinary summit of the Conference on Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, The streets of the Turkish capital Ankara filled to protest against the attack on the hospital in Gaza

Türkiye/2

• In Istanbul, during the night, a crowd of thousands of people had invaded the whole area of ​​the American consulate. Shortly before, the harsh reaction from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had arrived, who had defined what happened in the Gaza hospital as “a barbarism unprecedented in history“

TUNISIA

• Also to Tunis a flood of people – including students and activists – gathered in the morning in the central Avenue Bouguiba, in front of the French embassy, to show their support for the Palestinian people in reference to the news of the massacre at the hospital in Gaza. L’US embassy in Tunisia issued a warning message to citizens Americans, in anticipation of any other demonstrations scheduled for today

SYRIA

• People in the square also in Syria. The Syrian government said three days of public mourning starting today “for the innocent victims who died in the attack of the criminal Zionist forces who targeted the al-Mamdani hospital in the Gaza Strip”. In photo: Idlib

BANGLADESH

• It also invaded the streets of Dhakathe capital of Bangladesh. Supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, close to the Islamist right and the opposition, flocked here

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