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Leaders of different organisations yesterday strongly protested and condemned against the Israeli attack on the people of Palestine.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami urged world leaders to compel Israel to stop the genocide through immediately staging an emergency conference of United Nation (UN).

He said this from a demonstration organised by the party at the North gate of Baitul Mukarram mosque yesterday with Party Mahanagar Unit Amir Rafiqul Islam Khan in the chair.

Jaamat Assistance Secretary General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Abdul Kader Molla, ATM Azharul Islam, among others spoke.

Nizami expressed solidarity with the freedom fight of Palestinian people and urged leaders of UN, Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) and also the government of Bangladesh to take steps for ending the violence.

Palestine-Iraq Solidarity Council yesterday also organised a meeting protesting Israeli aggression on Gaza at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city.

Leaders of the organisation said, the attack was a conspiracy for destroying the desire of Palestine's freedom and urged the Bangladesh government to take raise its voice against the killing to the world leaders.

They blamed that "Israel has been continuing its attack on Palestine for long days with assistance of the United States".

Council convenor Prof AKM Saduddin, Sheikh Md Shahidullah, CPB leader Ruhin Hossain Prince, among others, attended it.

At the same time, Association for Law Research & Human Rights (ALERT) yesterday formed a human chain to protest the Israeli killing on Palestine at the National Eidgah Maidan in the city.

ALERT president Advocate Md Zahangir Alam, also a lawyer of Bangladesh Supreme Court, led the programme.

Staff Reporter

The leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e- Islami yesterday welcomed the Awami League led grand alliance government on the eve of their assuming power.

The note of felicitation of the party came at an executive council meeting of the party at the central office in the city.

Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, ameer of the party presided over the meeting.

The party hoped that the new government would focus on public issues by establishing a culture of democratic tolerance.

"Jamaat want to see the democratic system in the country could run and established," it added.

They also called upon the government to stop harassment on four-party activists across the country.