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Gaza Strip, Gaza City - 19 January 2015

1. Various of Palestinian Salafists, a fundamentalist Islamic movement, burning a French flag and stamping on it

2. Salafists marching and holding Salafist flags in Gaza City

3. Salafist holding banner reading (Arabic) "Amedy Coulibaly (third gunman in Paris attacks) took the revenge of the Prophet Muhammad"

4. Salafists, members marching and holding flags

5. Salafists running as security officials try to prevent them from reaching the French Cultural Centre

6. Security vehicle arriving UPSOUND: sirens

7. Various of Salafists protesting in front of the French Cultural Centre, smoke seen rising from crowd

8. Close of sign for French Cultural Centre

9. Hamas security forces in front of centre

10. Salafists and security forces outside centre

11. Salafists walking away from centre

12. Hamas security forces standing guard near French Cultural Centre

Palestinian Salafists, a fundamentalist Islamic movement, protested outside the French Cultural Centre in Gaza on Monday, in anger at caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo.

Protesters set fire to French flags and carried banners condemning the use of the images of the Prophet Muhammad.

One protester held a sign in support of the recent attacks in Paris, reading: "Amedy Coulibaly (the third gunman in the Paris attacks) took the revenge of the Prophet Muhammad".

Security forces were called in to control the crowd, and later could be seen standing guard outside the French Cultural Centre.

Charlie Hebdo's latest issue, which depicts a cartoon image of the Prophet Muhammad crying, has set of a groundswell of popular antagonism across Europe against radical Islam, and protests against the images across the Muslim world that have underscored vast cultural differences.

According to mainstream Islamic tradition, any physical depiction of the Prophet Muhammad - even a respectful one - is considered blasphemous.