GAZA, April 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A leader of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas on Thursday voiced his support for Iraqi insurgency against foreign occupation, calling Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George W. Bush as "murderers."

   "The Palestinian people are fully supporting the Iraqi people," Abdel Aziz Ranteesi said in a demonstration in Gaza City, where hundreds of Hamas supporters marched in the streets.

   "Great and big greeting to Moqtada al-Sadr, we support you and God with you," Ranteesi said, referring to the radical Iraqi Shiite leader.

   He said that the hundreds of demonstrators "came here to tell the Iraqi people that the Palestinian people are with you, you are fighting the American terrorism as we fight the Zionist terrorism."

   "I'm certain that you would win your battle against the Americans and you would of course defeat the American terrorism," said Ranteesi.

   "You are there in the frontier because you are fighting the enemies of God and Islam, the murderers Bush and Sharon," he told the rally.

   The crowds waved Iraqi and Palestinian flags, chanting slogans against the coalition forces led by the United States, as dozens of armed militants fired in the air to express their protest.

   Similar demonstrations broke out in the streets in various refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip, where the Palestinians called upon Arab and Muslim nations to save the Iraqi people from the US-led occupation.  Enditem