After Friday prayers, the demonstrators occupied squares and streets in Cairo and the capitals of several governorates, where they chanted slogans such as Long live free Palestine! Down with the occupation! With our soul and blood we will redeem you, oh Al-Aqsa! The latter in allusion to the mosque in the occupied zone of East Jerusalem.

Thousands of citizens flocked to the monument to the Unknown Soldier on Cairo’s Al-Nasr Street and to the emblematic Tahir Square, where they raised banners against Israel and in favor of Palestine.

Rallies were also reported in the 6th of October City, in the western Governorate of Giza.

National television showed footage of demonstrations in the governorates of Menoufia, Matrouh, Qena, Minya and Dakahlia.

Two days ago, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi strongly rejected any project by Israel to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip to the Sinai Peninsula.

“Egypt has 105 million inhabitants (…) If it is necessary to ask the Egyptian people to come out and express their rejection of this idea, you will see millions of Egyptians come out to express their rejection,” the president said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

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