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SARAJEVO, Jan 8 (KUNA) -- Hundreds of Bosnians and Arabs staged a
demonstration in front of the US embassy on Thursday protesting the ongoing
Israeli offensive on Gaza.
The demonstrators expressed anger at the US policy of support for Israel
charging that Washington "is a partner in the ethnic cleansing operation in
Gaza."
Dr. Nabil Nasser, the leader of the demonstration and the head of the
Palestinian community in Bosnia said in a statement, "hands of the leaders of
the United States have been stained with the blood of the children of Gaza,"
alluding to Washington's staunch opposition to a proposed Security Council
resolution stipulating a halt of the Israeli attacks.
He likened current conditions in Gaza to the conditions that prevailed in
Bosnia during the war, saying, "What is happening in Gaza now is tantamount to
ethnic cleansing and physical liquidation of the Palestinian people, very much
like what the Serb army had done in Bosnia-Herzegovina."
Dr. Nasser lashed out at the US accusing it of supporting "enemies of the
Muslims worldwide at the pretext of fighting terrorism."
"The war on terrorism is being exploited as a justification to launch
racial attacks on peoples of the Muslim nation," he said. (end)
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