MATARAM, INDONESIA: Some 60 members of the Majelis Mujahiddin and Laskar Muhahiddin organisations threw rotten eggs at a Western fast-food restaurant in an anti-Israeli rally here on Friday (16 Jan).

Indonesia's Antara news agency reported that Darmawan, the rally's coordinator, called for a boycott of United States products, arguing that the USA was funding the Israeli military aggression in Palestine.

The protesters also demanded to meet the managements of two Western fast-food restaurants in Mataram to ask them to replace their Western food products with local NTB and Indonesian food.

Meanwhile, in Medan (North Sumatra) on Friday, Dr. Iskandar Zulkarnain, an international media observer, urged the United Nations to investigate the killing of Fadal Shana (23), a Reuters television journalist, by Israeli troops in Gaza, Palestine, recently.

"The death of the pressman who was doing noble and humanitarian work, must be investigated," he said.

Under international laws on warfare , medical personnel helping war victims and journalists covering wars must be protected and not be shot, he said.

He suspected that the Israeli troops had deliberately shot the Reuters journalist.

If it was proven that Fadal Shana was killed by the Zionist soldiers deliberately, the Israeli government must be held responsible for violating the international law, he said.

Since the Israeli military aggression which has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, anti-Israeli rally is held in many cities in Indonesia almost daily. (Bernama)