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Thousands of people in the Arab world have attended rallies to express anger at Israel's air raids on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. | |
Protesters burned Israeli and American flags in a string of Arab cities and demanded a stronger response from their leaders to Israel's "aggression". | |
In Egypt protests were organised by the Muslim Brotherhood, allies of Hamas. | |
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a rally in Mosul, northern Iraq, killing a protester and wounding 16. | A suicide bomber blew himself up at a rally in Mosul, northern Iraq, killing a protester and wounding 16. |
Local police quoted by the Associated Press said the Mosul demonstration had been organised by the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party. | Local police quoted by the Associated Press said the Mosul demonstration had been organised by the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party. |
"Arab silence is behind the bombings," read a banner held by one of several thousand people who turned out in the Sunni Arab city of Samarra north of Baghdad. | |
More than 50,000 demonstrated in Egyptian cities on Sunday, the AFP news agency reported. | |
Security officials said the biggest protest was in the southern city of Asyut. | |
They were led by the Islamist opposition in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which Hamas first emerged. | |
The BBC's Christian Fraser in Cairo says the Brotherhood regards Hamas members as their spiritual brothers. | |
Many Palestinian emigres took part in the rallies in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. | |
In the centre of the Syrian capital Damascus protesters, incensed at Israel's military operation, waved green flags of the Hamas militant movement alongside Palestinian, Syrian and yellow Hezbollah flags, AFP reported. | |
Thousands also attended a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the Jordanian capital Amman, and there were rallies in many of Jordan's overcrowded refugee camps, home to thousands of displaced Palestinians. | |
There were also anti-Israeli protests in Sudan and Yemen. |