From Ahram Online
Thousands of bereaved Palestinians in camps in south Lebanon on Monday laid to rest victims of a cross-border Israeli shooting, as shops and schools in the camps closed for a day of mourning.
In the Al-Bass refugee camp, thousands of people gathered for the burial of 17-year-old Mohammed Salem, one of 10 protesters shot dead by Israeli troops on Sunday at the Lebanese border.
More than 100 others were wounded when the crowd of thousands of refugees came under fire from Israeli troops near the Lebanese border town of Maroun al-Ras during a rally to mark the 1948 "nakba," Arabic for catastrophe...
... Ali Barakeh, the Lebanon representative of Islamist group Hamas, said Lebanon's Palestinians were readying for a massive rally on Thursday outside of the UN offices in Beirut.
"This is a massacre inside Lebanese territory," Barakeh, who was present at the Sunday rally, told AFP. "The only arms at the Lebanese side of the border were rocks.
"We place the blame for what happened on Sunday squarely on the shoulders of the enemy (Israel)."
The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah meanwhile lauded the "courage" of protesters who faced Israeli gunfire and reiterated his warning of Israel's fate.
"We must bow before the courage, the bravery, of those who protested yesterday at Lebanon and Syria's borders with occupied Palestine, who faced the tyranny of the enemy with bare chests and their heads held high," Hassan Nasrallah said in a statement released by his Shiite group Monday. more
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