In a rare protest by a member of Jordan's royalty, Queen Rania led a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Amman, underlining Arab rage towards the Israeli incursions into the West Bank.
Protests also took place elsewhere in the Arab world Tuesday, as they have every day for more than a week.
Queen Rania and three other royal family members walked behind the first row of protesters: five Jordanian children in wheelchairs with signs draped around their necks calling on Israel to "stop disabling our children."
Some 2,000 women activists, children and wives of Arab diplomats in Jordan took part in the peaceful demonstration.
This demonstration came a day after King Abdullah II told an emergency Cabinet meeting that the Jordanian "people and leadership are all angry at what is taking place in Palestine." "I am ready myself to take part in a demonstration," added Abdullah.
In other protests Tuesday, Egyptian demonstrators directed some of their ire at U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a brief stop in the Egyptian capital as part of a Mideast peacemaking tour, AP reported.
"No welcome to Powell," university students chanted in the northern port city of Alexandria. Thousands of students also staged loud but peaceful protests against Powell's visit at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, Tanta University and in front of the Egyptian parliament building. It was reported that one protester was killed in clashes with police.
In Yemen, witnesses said one person was killed and two others injured by police during a violent protest in the southern port of Aden. It was one of two large protests in Yemen on Tuesday. In the capital Sana`a, more than 300,000 people took to the streets.
In Lebanon, several thousand people preceded by religious leaders and lawmakers marched in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh and later gathered in the central square. (Albawaba.com)
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