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Security forces used teargas and batons on Sunday to keep away demonstrators who were protesting against Israel and tried to attack a U.S. consulate in Pakistan, while tens of thousands of people protested worldwide against Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

In Beirut, about 2,500 Lebanese and Palestinians held a peaceful protest Sunday against the devastating Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip, while in neighboring Syria, hundreds of demonstrators threw insults against the Jewish state against Arab leaders who have not expressed a strong condemnation of the attacks.


Thousands of people also staged a protest demonstration in the cities of Madrid and Seville, Spain.

As for the protest on Sunday in the Pakistani city of Karachi, the official said Ameer Sheikh that hundreds of people began marching towards the consulate. He added that some were carrying bricks and sticks.


Access roads to the consulate were cut barricades, but the crowd was able to remove some metal barriers several hundred meters away. The security forces launched recognized baton charge and tear gas against demonstrators in hand, which eventually forced to disperse.

Massive protests have been registered across the Arab world since Israel began its campaign with the December 27 bombing raids in densely populated areas of Gaza.


Israel launched its offensive to stop rocket attacks from militiamen of the Islamist organization Hamas, which controls Gaza, and other armed groups.

Public health officials in Gaza have said that more than 820 Palestinians have been killed, about half of them civilians, including many children, elderly and women. They have also killed 13 Israelis.


Many of the demonstrators in Lebanon, carrying Palestinian flags and posters demanding the international community to stop Israeli attacks, while marching near a building where United Nations offices.

In Madrid and Seville, thousands of people marched through the streets demanding that Israel halt the carnage in Gaza. "


"It is my duty to call on Israel to implement an immediate truce, said Sunday the president of the Spanish government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in a political act in Orense in northwestern Spain.

On Saturday, thousands of people staged demonstrations in the Spanish cities of Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca calling a truce.


Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos of Spain should make a tour of the Middle East from Monday to promote a solution to the conflict.

In Beirut, a group of leftists burned an Israeli flag, while children took part in the protest were carrying in their hands bloodied dolls representing children killed in Gaza.


In Syria, protesters accused several Arab leaders including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, of complicity with Israel in the attacks on Gaza.