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Protesters picket Israel, US embassies |
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Associated Press
Last updated 06:29pm (Mla time) 08/04/2006
DOZENS of Filipino protesters on Friday burned mock American and Israeli flags in noisy demonstrations outside the two countries' embassies and a mosque, demanding an end to Israel's offensive in Lebanon.
The protest in front of the Israeli Embassy drew a crowd of about 40, mostly left-wing activists who have been denouncing the attacks on Lebanon almost every day.
They burned paper-made U.S. and Israeli flags before dispersing peacefully.
Meanwhile, a Muslim political party issued a strongly worded statement after Friday prayers at Manila's Golden Mosque, calling on Muslim nations to "unite in condemning in the strongest possible terms the continuing criminal act of the brutal Zionist Israeli military forces, not only against the Lebanese and Palestinian people but the entire Muslim community."
Anak Mindanaw, which has one member in the House of Representatives, also called upon "all able Muslims within the war-stricken region to rally behind" Lebanese and Palestinians in protecting their land.
The Philippines has been focused on evacuating about 30,000 Filipinos in Lebanon after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered all of them out of the country.
So far, more than 2,000 have been repatriated via Syria, and officials said they have been coordinating with allies including the U.S. and Britain on getting ships to send home the rest of the Filipino workers.
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban Conejos said Thursday one Filipino maid died as she was trying to escape from her employer in Lebanon and another plunged to her death from an apartment last week.
It wasn't clear whether the 24-year-old woman who died July 28 trying to flee from her employer wanted to join the evacuation or was escaping maltreatment, he said. |
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