(BERNAMA-IINA, 24 October 2000)
SANA'A, Oct 24 (Bernama-IINA) -- A huge procession in which at least a million people took part was held here, to show solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters in their defiance of Israeli occupation and their struggle for Jerusalem. The demonstrators repeatedly chanted the slogans that there should be no normalization of relations with Israel, no peace with Israel, and the rallying call that said: "Khaybar, Khaybar will be repeated."
The demonstrators assembled in the Sabeen Square, north of the capital,where the Speaker of the Yemeni National Assembly, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmar, addressed them, and called for the opening of the borders with Israeli so that people could volunteer to fight the Zionists. He called for help for the Intifadha, and urged the people to help the Palestinians in everyway possible, including money and weapons.
The demonstrators then headed for the UN offices in Sana'a, where the Speaker of the National Assembly handed in a memorandum outlining the Israeli entity's human rights violations and repression of the Palestinian people, which, said the memorandum, has already killed 120 Palestinians and injured more than 4,000 of them. The memorandum went on to state that the massacres that are perpetrated by the Israelis are a slap in the face of Arab and Islamic systems, and even the international community, which has done nothing to stop the Zionist misdeeds against the unarmed Palestinians and against the religious holy sites of the Muslims, and the violations of the human rights of the Palestinians.
The memorandum then called upon all the leaders of Arab countries to support and help the Palestinian Intifadha in every possible way, including moral, material and military support, and also to decide on what is to be done to ensure the setting up of an independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital. The memorandum said that the Arab leaders must do everything to protect the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and to cancel all kind of normalization with the Zionist entity, which, it said should be boycotted completely. The memorandum requested Arab and Muslim countries to reconsider their relations with other countries, bearing in mind their stances toward the Palestine issue, and to set up a fund for helping the Palestinian people. -- Bernama-IINA