Tag: palestine

Press Syndicate demo

Posted on By 3arabawy

There is a demonstration taking place now in front of the Press Syndicate, which started around an hour ago.

I’m told there are 2000+ protesters, largely MBs. And according to Jaikus I’m receiving the MBs are intervening and silencing anyone who’s chanting “Down with Hosni Mubarak” and are segregating the men from women protesters. DISGUSTING! All the Muslim Brotherhood’s moves are in coordination with the police.

UPDATE: Mansoura is under the occupation of police troops, while in Cairo Abu Sehla has made an appearance in front of the Press Syndicate.

UPDATE: A video from the protests:

At least 150,000 Egyptians demonstrate in solidarity with Gaza

Posted on By 3arabawy

I’m watching Al-Jazeera. The channel is reporting that from 150,000 to quarter of a million Egyptians have participated in demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza, yesterday and today.

The protesters are calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and severing all diplomatic and economic ties with the Zionist state.

Palestinians cross into Egypt

Posted on By 3arabawy

Bring down the bloody fence!

Palestinians have breached the border fence with Egypt in several places and hundreds have crossed the frontier prompting Egyptian border guards to open fire, said officials and witnesses on both sides of the border.
An Egyptian security official said there were at least four breaches along the 9 mile (14 kilometer) border and hundreds of Palestinian residents were pouring in.
The breach came shortly after Israeli aircraft struck the smuggling tunnels running underneath the border, targeting one of the lifelines of the territory’s Hamas rulers.
At least 300 Egyptian border guards have been rushed to the area to reseal the border, the official added on condition on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
A witness on the Gaza side of the border, Fida Kishta, said residents detonated a land mine along the border and commandeered a bulldozer to create more breaches.
“There was a loud bang and then we saw the smoke, and then people began heading toward Egypt, we counted them in the hundreds. Everyone in the area started crossing through,” she said.
The official on the Egyptian side said the wall between Gaza and Egypt at the Barahneh neighborhood was brought down during the airstrike and the subsequent large explosion from a nearby fuel tank.
“Hundreds of women, children and men went through the breach,” the official said speaking on condition of anonymity. He added that there was firing in the air from both sides as people attempted to cross the border. Palestinians also threw stones at the Egyptian security.