Tens Of Thousands Protest Against Lebanon 'bloodbath' In Iran, Yemen

Tehran, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Sep, 2024) Tens of thousands protested in Iranian cities and in the rebel-held Yemeni capital on Friday to condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, AFP journalists and state media reported.

The demonstrates in Tehran and other Iranian cities were responding to call by authorities on Wednesday to demonstrate in support of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon "and to condemn the barbaric crimes of the Zionist regime in Palestine," the official IRNA news agency said.

In Tehran after Friday prayers, a protest took place around Enghelab Square in the city centre, an AFP journalist said.

Demonstrators carried portraits of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as well as Palestinian and Hezbollah flags.

"Israel is destroyed. Lebanon is victorious," they chanted, deploring "a bloodbath in Lebanon."

Protesters also burned Israeli and US flags.

State television aired footage of other demonstrations in Semnan, Qom, Kashan, Kermanshah, Shiraz and Bandar Abbas.

In Sanaa, which has been held by the Huthis for a decade, tens of thousands of chanting protesters gathered, many waving rifles and placards.

"We say to our brothers in Lebanon that you will be victorious, God willing," said Huthi supporter Mortada al-Mutawkil. "This war is not the first nor the last with the Israeli enemy, but God willing it will be more painful for Israel than the 2006 war."

Another protester, Mohammed Mushki, said: "No matter how long the war lasts and no matter how big it is, we are on their side, all the Yemeni people, on the side of the Lebanese and Palestinian people until victory, God willing."

In Bahrain, two protests denounced the war in Gaza and bombing campaign on Lebanon.

Several hundred people marched in a village north of Manama, voicing solidarity with Gaza and Lebanon, and in the capital scores of people raised Palestinian and Lebanese flags and called for an end to ties with Israel.

"The people demand an end to normalisation," the protesters chanted.