Gazans protest against Israeli brutality

Tens of thousands of Gazans on Friday protested against the Zionist regime's raids that massacared 35 Palestinians, as the regime mulled a ground brutal attack on the Gaza Strip.

Late Friday an activist of Islamic Jihad and a 17-year-old girl were martyred in an air raid on Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, hospital sources said.

A little earlier an activist of Hamas's military wing was martyred in a similar raid while a two-year-old girl, Malak Karsarna, died after being wounded by a shell blast near Beit Hanun, the sources added.

The demonstrators poured into the streets throughout the persecuted territory in response to the Hamas government's call to denounce the air strikes, whose victims include several children.

"They've killed my right to childhood," read a sign held by a child who attended a large rally in Jabaliya.

Among the protesters in Gaza City was Khalil al-Hayyah, a Hamas leader who lost a 25-year-old son in an air strike Thursday.

"We will never recognise Israel, even if it assassinates all our leaders and kills our children," he shouted to the crowd.

"Gaza today faces a real war, a crazy war led by the enemy against our people," said Ismail Haniya.

Haniya lashed out at the American administration for backing the Zionist regime's attacks by portraying them as "legitimate self-defence."

He also slammed the Arab world for encouraging the Israeli aggression through its silence.

The 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) also condemned the regime's brutal raids and urged the United Nations to rein in the Zionist regime.