By SALAH NASRAWI, Associated Press

Palestinian sympathizers bemoan "Zionist" aggression

CAIRO, Egypt(Ooctober 3, 2000 7:23 p.m. EDT-Thousands of students marched at Egyptian universities Tuesday, waving Qurans and vowing to come to Palestinians' aid, as a wave of anti-Israeli protests rumbled on across the Middle East on the sixth day of Israeli-Palestinian clashes.
In Lebanon, the leader of a radical Palestinian faction demanded the Lebanese government allow Palestinian refugees to march to the border with Israel "to express our solidarity with our people inside Palestine."
Wherever our hands can reach we will resist with all our strength in order to support the revolution," said Munir Makdah, leader of a group called the Black September 13 Battalions.
Nearly a week of clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian protesters have left more than 50 dead-mostly Palestinians-throwing the peace process into turmoil. The violence has fueled angry protests across the Arab world for days.
Thousands of students demonstrated at several university campuses across Egypt on Tuesday. At Cairo University, students called for a holy war to liberate Palestinian lands. Raising copies of the Quran, Islam's holy book, they demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.
"I wish I could be a martyr like those who died in Palestine,"Mohammed Ibrahim, a law student said over cries of "Allahu akbar," or God is great."
In Baghdad, thousands of Iraqis led by ruling Baath Party officials marched through the streets, urgin Arab states to rush to the aid of the Palestinians.
"The Arabs should wake up and stop accepting humiliation from America and the Zionists(Israel)."President Saddam Hussein told University lecturers in a speech broadcast on television.

Palestinian refugees, political activists and students staged several protests in Jordan calling for suspension of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty. In one protest in the capital, Amman, some 500 high school students burned the Israeli flag as they chanted: No peace, no ties with the Zionists."
In the Libyan capital, Tripoli, hundreds of Palestinians staged a sit-in protest at the Palestinian Embassy.
At the United Nations, meanwhile, Palestinian envoy Nasser Al-Kidwa choked up Tuesday as he recounted the attacks of the past six days. Israel came under heated criticism in the Security Council for what several ambassadors, including those from Russia, Ukraine, and Malayasia, called excessive use of force by Israeli soldiers.
But while all ambassadors condemned the violence, the council was unable to agree on a common statement of condemnation to be adopted at the conclusion of the special open meeting.
The United States, Israel's closest ally in the United Nations, has traditionally tried to keep Mideast issues out of the Security Council agenda. It blocked agreement on the statement in consultations Monday night and early Tuesday. Israel has insisted it is using restraint in the violence.
Norwegian physician Haakon Aars, in Jerusalem for the international Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said attacks on ambulances, health personnel and clinics have been widespread during the unrest. He also said Israeli troops seem to be aiming high, not just at crowd members' legs and feet.
"Most of the patients have gunshot wounds to their heads, eyes and in the heart and stomach," he said, according to a Red Cross statement.