based Arab League called an emergency session for Tuesday to address the attack, as the two only Arab states with peace deals with Israel _ Jordan and Egypt _ sharply condemned the violence. Jordan's information minister, Nabil al-Sharif, called it a «heinous crime» and called for the lifting of the blockade on Gaza. Egypt's Foreign Ministry said the violence underlines how Gaza «remains under total Israeli occupation,» and it called «for the immediate lifting of the Israeli siege on Gaza.» In Beirut, about 500 Palestinian and Lebanese activists protested in front of the U.N. headquarters, setting Israeli flags on fire. In neighboring Syria, more than 200 Syrian and Palestinian protesters staged a sit-in before the offices of the United Nations to denounce the Israeli raid.
