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Protesters in Tahrir call for end of Israeli occupation of Gaza Hundreds of demonstrators rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Thursday to protest against the continued plight of Gaza under Israeli occupation
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in Tahrir Square on the 38th anniversary of the 1973 War against Israel to protest against the Israeli occupation of Gaza. The protesters gathered Thursday morning around a single podium without disrupting traffic, according to Ahmed El-Asi, one of the protesters and a member of the Egyptian Alliance to End the Siege of Gaza and Build It, which called for the demonstration. “The slogan of the protest is ‘Revolutionaries Against Zionism,'” El-Asi told Ahram Online over the phone. “Several political movements and parties took part in the protest, including the Tawhid Party,” he added. Tensions between Egypt and Israel escalated last month after protesters stormed offices attached to the Israeli embassy in Cairo. The action was part of a protest against the killing of Egyptian border guards by Israeli forces.