AMMAN, Jordan - Muslim Brotherhood chief Hammam Said said that around half a million
people attended celebration on Friday over the “Gaza victory” in the war against Israel.
The rally was held in Tabarbur, east of the Jordanian capital, However, a security official put the number at more than 100,000.
Demonstrators waved Palestinian and Jordanian flags as well as the
colours of Hamas, the Islamist Palestinian rulers of Hamas, who have
been locked in a month-long deadly showdown with Israel.
They also held up signs that read: “Gaza victory” and “There is no
option but the resistance” in reference to Hamas’s confrontation with
Israeli forces, and urged Arab rulers to “liberate Palestine”.
The demonstrators also chanted slogans of support for Hamas’s
military wing, the Ezzeddine al-Qassam Brigades, with the Brotherhood
chief lauding the fighters, an AFP correspondent said.
“O heroes of Qassam… may God praise you,” said Said, paying tribute
to the militants for firing rockets at Israel and its troops.
“You are victorious in the negotiations and you were victorious in
the battles,” he said, in reference to talks mediated by Egypt for a
lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
During the rally masked men wearing military fatigues like those of the Qassam Brigades marched holding up mock rockets.
Source: AFP
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