LONDON -- People around the world watched in horror as images of terror in the United States filled their television screens Tuesday. On the West Bank, Palestinians celebrated but most world leaders expressed solidarity with an America that looked more vulnerable than ever.
Iraqi television played a patriotic song that begins "Down with America!" as it showed the World Trade Center's towers falling.</i></ref>
In the West Bank town of [[Nablus]], about 3,000 people poured into the street shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and government targets in Washington. Demonstrators distributed candy in a traditional gesture of celebration. Several Palestinian gunmen shot in the air, while other marchers carried. The were Palestinian flags.
<ref>[https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30023338.html Palestinians celebrate in the streets], Irish Examiner, Sep 11, 2001.<blockquote>
In traditionally Arab east Jerusalem, there was a smaller gathering of about two dozen people, many of them young children led in chants by adults. Some drivers passing the scene honked their horns and flashed victory signs from their windows.</blockquote></ref>
[[Bin-Laden ]] poster was seen at [[Gaza ]] rally of masses of thousands.
<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20010915160506/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010914/aponline180932_000.htm Bin-Laden Poster Seen at Gaza Rally], The Associated Press, Washington Post,
Friday, Sept. 14, 2001.