More than 1,000 Muslims rallied in the Indonesian capital Jakarta to protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinians.

Between 1,000 and 1,500 Muslims, many of them in white robes and shirts, marched down the main artery linking south and central Jakarta to protest against the Israeli aggression. Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-populated nation with over 80 percent of its 214 million people following Islam, has no diplomatic ties with Israel.

The protestors marched from the Al Azhar mosque in South Jakarta where they had held a rally, organized by the little-known Anti Israeli-Zionist Movement (GAZA). It featured a series of speeches from GAZA activists and guests who lashed out at Israel and called for its eradication. "Israel is the Devil," "Halt the massacre in Palestina," "Ariel Sharon-George Bush are terrorists," and "Destroy Israel," said some of the posters carried by protestors.

Among them were some 200 members of the Front for the Defenders of Islam (FPI), a militant Muslim group which has opened registration for volunteers to fight with the Palestinians.

Earlier Thursday they had protested at the US embassy and at the UN mission in Jakarta, demanding that the United Nations act firmly against Israel. Some of their leaders held a free speech forum in front of the closed gates of the mission while other protestors yelled anti-Israel slogans interspersed with cries of "Allah is great." There were no reported incidents of violence.