Police arrested 65 people trying to force their way out of the university's gates toward the nearby Israeli embassy. Hundreds of intellectuals and journalists were expected to participate in a sit-down strike called by the Press Syndicate to protest holding the summit on Egyptian soil. Every day, some 200 Egyptian people donate blood for wounded Palestinians. Cairo parents bring their children to shake hands with wounded Palestinians brought to Egypt for treatment. Calls for the Arab countries to use their oil resources and economic clout to counter Israeli attacks on Palestinians resounded across Lebanon on Oct. 13, along with a denunciation of all ties and negotiations with Israel and demands for a boycott on U.S. goods.
Daily demonstrations continue throughout Lebanon.
Palestinians of the Druze religious denomination are the only Palestinians living within Israeli borders who serve in the Israeli military. Lebanese Druze leaders issued a statement calling on their Palestinian Druze brothers in the Israeli army to reject compulsory military service, mutiny and desert. In Damascus, Syria , where protests have occurred daily, police used tear gas to disperse 2,000 angry people who tried to reach the U.S. Embassy Oct. 13. The demonstrators burned U.S. and Israeli flags and implored President Bashar Assad to open the borders for attacks on Israel. Iraq's governing Ba'ath Party estimated that a million Iraqi men and women have volunteered to fight alongside the Palestinians.