Jordan Queen Protests Israel Action

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - In a rare protest by a member of Jordan's royalty, Queen Rania led a pro-Palestinian demonstration through the capital, underlining Arab frustration with Israeli incursions into the West Bank and the pressure on moderate leaders to show they share their people's anger.

Protests also took place elsewhere in the Arab world Tuesday, as they have every day for more than a week.

Rania, whose family comes from one of the Palestinian towns Israeli troops took over in their West Bank operation, and three other royal family members walked behind the first row of protesters: five Jordanian children in wheelchairs with signs draped around their necks calling on Israel to "stop disabling our children."

Some 2,000 women activists, children and wives of Arab diplomats in Jordan took part in the peaceful demonstration, a rare exception to the royalty's policy of staying out of politics.