[09/January/2009]

SANA'A, Jan. (Saba)- Thousands of angry Yemenis held here on Friday a rally to protest against the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

More than 200000 protesters took to streets in the capital Sana'a after performing Friday prayers to show their support for the people of the Gaza Strip and denounce the nearly two-week Israeli military offensive on Gaza.

During the rally, they called on the UN Security Council and international and humanitarian organizations in the world to take practical steps and courageous decisions to stop the Israeli genocide war against the Palestinians in Gaza and force Israel to withdraw its military forces from Gaza and all the Israeli-occupied territories.

The angry Yemeni protesters also called for protecting the Palestinian people and enable and support them to reconstruct their destroyed houses, schools, mosques and services institutions due to Israel's continuous attacks on Gaza as well as creating an independent Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital.

In a statement of the participants in the rally, they urged the UN to stop the Israeli attacks on Gaza and redouble efforts to achieve peace in the region, denouncing the Zionist aggression on Gaza and adding that these criminal acts demonstrate that the Israel is a hateful and terrorist Zionist entity.

"A malignant cancer in the body of humanity will be extirpated from the humanitarian world only when the International community secures a strict protection of international peace and security," the statement explained.

"We call for the need to put an end to this barbaric aggression so that the World can live in peace and security, affirming that the scenes of the bodies of women, children and elderly in Gaza are a living testimony to the culture of the Israeli hatred and terrorism".

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Saba