Palestinian refugees hail bus driver who killed eight Israelis

The demonstrators marched across the Ain el-Hilweh camp on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon.

On Wednesday, Khalil Abu Olba drove his bus into a crowd waiting at a bus stop, killing eight Israelis and wounding 21. Seven soldiers were among those killed.

The refugees held up pictures of Abu Olba during the protest which was organized by the mainstream Fatah movement, led by Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat.

Children aged between three and five, holding flags of different Arab countries, opened the march, while others wearing military fatigues held symbolic plastic weapons.

Some 360,000 Palestinian refugees live, half of them in poor conditions, in 12 camps across Lebanon.

(kil/dpa)