Report: Lebanese Parties, Palestinian Factions Plan to Hold Rally Near Israeli Border
Pro-Syrian Lebanese parties and Palestinian factions are organizing a rally in areas bordering Israel on Earth Day in Lebanon on March 30, al-Liwaa daily reported Friday.
The newspaper said the Baath party and the Syrian Social National Party, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, Fatah al-Intifada and other factions are coordinating to mark Earth Day.
Al-Liwaa quoted an informed source as saying that the Lebanese authorities were coordinating with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon to take the necessary measures to guarantee the safety of the protestors and prevent a repeat of the Israeli attack on demonstrators marking the 1948 "nakba," Arabic for catastrophe in May last year.
Ten protesters were killed and 112 others wounded when a crowd of thousands of Palestinian refugees came under fire from Israeli troops near the Lebanese border town of Maroun al-Ras during the rally.
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