MEXICO: Demonstration in Mexico takes place to show support for Israel as conflict rages
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303863
MEXICO: Demonstration in Mexico takes place to show support for Israel as conflict rages
- Title: MEXICO: Demonstration in Mexico takes place to show support for Israel as conflict rages
- Date: 10th January 2009
- Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (JANUARY 09, 2009) (REUTERS) ISRAELI FLAG TWO YOUNGSTERS HOLDING FLAGS FROM ISRAEL GIRLS JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND SINGING GENERAL VIEW OF DEMONSTRATION WOMAN SHOUTING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL GENERAL VIEW OF DEMONSTRATION GIRLS JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND SINGING BANNER THAT READS: "ISRAEL DOES NOT ATTACK PALESTINE BUT TERRORISM" MAN HOLDING UP BANNER THAT READS: "PEACE IS AT STAKE IN THIS WAR, KEEP GOING BANNER THAT READS: "GAZA CITIZENS ARE VICTIMS OF HAMAS, NOT ISRAEL" YOUNGSTERS JUMPING UP AND DOWN, SINGING ISRAELI FLAG
- Embargoed: 25th January 2009 12:00
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- Location: Mexico
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: International Relations
- Reuters ID: LVA1PH659C6D94SVM2XFU4S430DF
- Story Text: Hundreds of Mexico's Jewish community and their supporters demonstrated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Mexico City on Friday (January 09) to support Israel and to protest against the fighting that continues in the region.
Waving Israeli flags and dressed in white, the demonstrators said they were protesting against the missile attacks launched by Hamas.
Girls frantically jumped up and down singing in unison.
Men and women held up banners that read: "Peace is at stake in this war, keep going" and "Gaza citizens are victims of Hamas, not Israel."
Since the start of the latest round of violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip, a number of Latin American countries have expressed support for either Israel or Palestinians.
On Thursday, Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert dismissed a U.N.
resolution calling for an "immediate and durable" ceasefire in the two-week-old war as "unworkable". On Friday, warplanes and tanks continued to pound the Palestinian enclave.
Israel said Hamas fighters had fired at least 30 rockets into its territory on Friday. No casualties were reported.
Medics in Gaza said the Palestinian death toll had risen to 784. Ten Israeli soldiers have been killed, as well as three civilians hit by Hamas cross-border rocket fire.
Israel's air force said it hit more than 50 targets overnight. As fighting on the ground went on through the day, Palestinian medics counted at least 19 dead, including civilians.
With the Palestinian civilian death toll already in the hundreds, Israeli actions have drawn outraged denunciations from the Red Cross, U.N.
agencies and Arab and European governments. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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