Sudan said this evening that it had opened military camps across the country to train volunteers prepared to support the Palestinian uprising against Israeli military occupation, Sudanese state television reported.
"The training camps are ready to receive volunteer fighters as from today, Saturday," said the commander of the Popular Defense Force, Major Gen. Ahmed Abbas.
He called on every Sudanese capable of taking up arms to join the "holy war" against Israel.
Arab anger has mounted over the past week over Israel's military offensive against Palestinian cities in the West Bank.
Sudan television quoted Abbas as saying that the camps were set up according to a directive by Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Abbas said the paramilitary PDF would continue to mobilize all Sudanese people, including women, to protect the Palestinian people and liberate Jerusalem.
No further details were available on the camps or the mobilisation plans. It was far from clear how Sudanese fighters could ever be deployed to confront Israeli forces directly.
The PDF was founded in November 1989 to help the army crush its main rebel foe, the Sudan People's Liberation Army, in a 19-year-old war that has cost nearly two million lives.