December 31, 2008	Wednesday	Muharram 02,1430

HYDERABAD, Dec 30: A large number of Palestinian students and students of other Arab countries under the banner of the General Union of Palestine Students staged a demonstration in front of the press club on Tuesday to protest the genocide of the Palestinian citizens by the Israeli forces.

They raised slogans against the state of Israel and also

burnt Israeli flag. They carried flags of Palestinian state in their hands.

Reading out a statement, the student leaders said that for the last four days, the Zionist state of Israel had been committing inhuman atrocities against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the entire world was witnessing these atrocities as mute spectators.

For the past 60 years, there had been an unbroken history of massacre and crimes against the people of Palestine and the recent genocide was yet another expression of the nature of the illegitimate state, the students’ leaders said.

They said that it was the continuation of the Israel’s evil policy aimed at the occupation of the Palestinian land and the expansion of the Zionist state with the support of the US. The Palestinian people will face this genocide with steadfastness, strength, unity and resistance, they vowed.

They called for unity among all the Palestinian factions to counter Israeli war crimes and said that this was the best time to unite. They also appealed for intervention of all the people who believed in freedom and for an explicit denunciation of the Israeli leadership as war criminals.

They also urged the Islamic countries to help the Palestinian struggle for national rights and freedom and demanded of the Arab leaders to be decisive in their response to the Israeli aggression.

The whole world must understand that the policy of genocide cannot prevent the Palestinian people from their struggle for their legitimate rights and will never force them to kneel down, they said.