Thousands of Jordanians rallied here Sunday to express their outrage over
Israel's attacks against Lebanon and the Palestinian territories and call for
immediate international intervention to bring the Israeli offensives to an end.
The protesters marched through downtown Amman, holding up Jordanian,
Palestinian and Lebanese flags and chanting slogans supporting their Palestinian
and Lebanese brothers.
"The Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Palestine will make the situation get
worse", one of the protestors, Mahmoud Sahem said,adding "we wish the
international community can stop it."
Jordanian King Abdullah II and the cabinet have also strongly condemned the
continuing Israeli military operation in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, saying that
such operations will not bring security and stability to anyone except for the
innocent Palestinian and Lebanese people.
Israeli air raids shook Beirut early Sunday, the fifth successive day of its
offensive on Lebanon, which has killed more than 100 people.
Meanwhile, Israel also widened its offensive in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Israel launched military offensives after two soldiers held captive by
Lebanon's Hizbollah in an attack last week and another Israeli soldier was
abducted by Palestinian militants in an Israeli army post on June 25.