CAIRO,
March 30 (AFP) -
Thousands of Egyptians demonstrated Saturday against Israel, with some
demonstrations spilling out into the street despite a normally strictly enforced
ban on public protests, police sources said.
Around 3,000 students at Minya University south of Cairo demonstrated peacefully
on campus, burning an Israeli flag and calling for the expulsion of the Israeli
ambassador.
"Jihad (holy war), jihad, open the door to jihad," demonstrators chanted.
In Egypt's capital, meanwhile, 2,000 students demonstrated at the Islamic University of Al Azhar, another 500 protested at Cairo University, and 500 lawyers held a rally on the premises of their bar association headquarters, police sources said.
Riot troops were deployed outside the campuses and by the bar association but did not intervene, the witnesses said.
Another 1,000 students at a military secondary school in the south Cairo suburb of Maadi, and 1,000 more at a nearby secretarial school, demonstrated on the streets outside their respective campuses, but dispersed when police arrived, the source said.
Around 100 girls in school uniforms could be seen shouting slogans outside AFP's offices in the west Cairo neighborhood of Dokki.
It was the second day of protests in Cairo. More than 3,000 people also demonstrated Friday against Israel's latest military offensive.
Israel branded Arafat an enemy on Friday and sent in tanks and commandos to occupy Ramallah and besiege Arafat's compound there.
Anti-Israeli demonstrations have taken place regularly on Egyptian campuses following massive Israeli military incursions into the Palestinian territories earlier in the month.
Most public
demonstrations are banned by the state of emergency in force in Egypt since
1981, but are tolerated on university campuses.
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