Shiites hold pro-Hezbollah rally in Baghdad

‘Glory to the heroes’
During Friday prayers at the Tarek bin Zayed mosque in Bahrain, Sunni preacher Sheik Salah al-Jodar warned against edicts opposing Hezbollah.

Such fatwas are “only benefiting the Zionist entity. ... The ones who are resisting are the Lebanese people and we have to support them,” he said.

Ten people were arrested and four injured, including two police, when demonstrators clashed with officers in Amman, Jordan. Police had to use batons to stop a crowd of about 200, some waving Hezbollah flags, from marching from their mosque to the Israeli Embassy after noon prayers.

In Damascus, the Syrian capital, about 500 Communist Party protesters staged a sit-in. They carried Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian and Hezbollah flags, and photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Nasrallah.

The protesters carried banners with slogans like: “Glory to the heroes of the resistance in confronting the outrageous U.S.-Zionist aggression.”

“It’s a clear and big plot led by the U.S. and Israel in the pretext of rebuilding the Middle East,” said Ibrahim Zgheir, 57. “Lebanon is an entrance and the plan would expand to other countries.”

Police disperse demonstration
Some 5,000 Egyptians, mostly followers of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, gathered in Cairo’s al-Azhar mosque after prayers. Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters marched in three other Egyptian cities.

They denounced the war and were sharply critical of Egyptian and Saudi leaders, condemning what they said was their “shameful silence” on the conflict.

“Oh Mubarak Oh Abdullah, you let us down,” protesters chanted while calling on the Egyptian government to open the way for volunteers to join Hezbollah.

The crowd refused to leave, and police broke up the demonstration with water cannon and tear gas.

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