[IsraelTimes] Demonstrators accuse Cairo of taking part in the siege of Gaza, call to expel Israeli ambassador
Egyptian authorities this week arrested 10 activists who participated in a pro-Paleostinian protest where they accused the government of contributing to the siege of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
and called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, a human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
lawyer said.
Egypt’s government has condemned Israel’s campaign in Gaza, but has played a central role, along with the US and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, in trying to broker a cease-fire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas
 ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
. But it has largely banned public protests, and criticism of the country’s ties with Israel is highly sensitive.
Egypt has also kept its border with Gaza largely closed and stopped Paleostinians from fleeing Gaza.
On Wednesday, nearly 200 people rallied outside the building of the Journalist Syndicate in Cairo, waving the Paleostinian flag and chanting slogans: "What a disgrace! Egypt is helping the siege!" and "No to the Israeli Embassy! No to normalization." They also raised banners reading "Open the Rafah crossing" and "Glory to the Paleostinian resistance."
Government critics have called for Egypt to overturn a 2007 agreement that grants Israel the right to inspect convoys entering Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. They say it has allowed Israel to keep the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza’s 2.3 million Paleostinians at a trickle.
Later Wednesday, 10 activists who took part in the protest were arrested at their homes, and the next day prosecutors ordered their detention for 15 days while investigations were carried out, according to their lawyer Nabeh Elganadi.
They were charged with spreading false information and joining a terror group — usually a reference to the banned Moslem Brüderbund — charges that are frequently used against critics of the government.
Egypt declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organization in 2013, after the military removed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who hailed from the Brotherhood, from power after a year of divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
rule. Since then, authorities have cracked down on all forms of political dissent and banned protests.
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, when Hamas Death Eaters swarmed across the Israeli border killing some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking 253 hostages, Egyptian authorities have arrested dozens of pro-Gaza protesters, according to a report issued by the rights group Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.
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