In Kafr Kanna in the North, thousands of Israeli Arabs call for the Syrian President to step down.
By REUTERSArab Israelis protest Syrian Assad 390(photo credit: REUTERS/Ammar Awad)
Thousands of Israeli Arabs demonstrated against Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday, calling for him to step down and end his violent suppression of a nationwide revolt.Chanting "Bashar al-Assad leave" and "Let the people live", protesters in the northern town of Kafr Kanna set fire to posters of the Syrian president.Assad has shown no sign of easing his campaign to stamp out an 11-month uprising against his rule. His forces on Friday resumed attacks on opposition strongholds in the city of Homs, which has now been under fire for two weeks.The United Nations says more than 5,400 civilians have been killed in the uprising and the UN General Assembly on Thursday told Assad to stop the violence and surrender power.Syrian authorities say they are fighting foreign-backed "terrorists".Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday he expected Assad to fall "within weeks".Israeli Arabs step on a picture of Assad as Hitler.Last month Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz said the Jewish state was preparing to take refugees from Assad's minority Alawite sect into the Golan Heights, in the event of the president's downfall.
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