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Another Guantanamo detention
centre
ABCD Gaza/Cairo
- Dozens of Palestinians, including children and other civilians, have
been killed in the raids, which were launched by Israel on Friday. An Israeli aircraft struck a group of
civilians. Hamas had ordered all armed factions in Gaza to halt fire into Israel.
Following these attacks on Gaza by Israel, a demonstration marched in
Cairo from Tahrir Square to the Israeli embassy in Giza on Friday, with protesters waving Palestinian and Egyptian flags,
and chanting slogans in solidarity with Palestine. Demonstrators demanded that the Israeli flag be removed from on top of the building and raised a Palestinian flag atop an adjacent
mosque. Demonstrators also called for a halt to the export of gas to Israel and for the suspension of diplomatic and economic relations with the Israeli
state. The Egyptian military surrounded the building where the embassy is
located. On
Saturday, thousands of Egyptians shouted slogans against the
Egyptian Minister of Defense, after two protesters died and at least 13 protesters were injured as the army tried to disperse thousands who remained
around the Israeli embassy and in central Cairo's Tahrir Square on early 09
April. Protesters expressed their anger at the country's new military rulers
and barricaded themselves using barbed wire in central Cairo's Tahrir Square to block entrance to the
square. Black smoke was seen coming out of the square, where protesters set fire to three army
vehicles. An unknown number of people had been arrested overnight including around seven army members who joined Friday protests.
Ahmed Douma, a member of the political January 25 coalition, said all of those arrested had been taken inside the Egyptian Museum, located on one side of the
square. 'The museum is turning into another Guantanamo detention centre,' Douma
said.
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