The wives of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders staged their first demonstration ever to protest at the Israeli massacres in Gaza and call for a total opening of the Rafah border crossing. Security forces resorted to policewomen to face the confrontation, as clashes broke out while the MB wives, led by the MB first female candidate for the People's Assembly [Egypt's lower chamber of Parliament], were trying to demonstrate on the sidewalk opposite the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo. The demonstrators also chanted pro-Palestine slogans. Meanwhile, the MB website said 181 of its members have been released by the Ministry of Interior after being arrested during demonstrations held against the Gaza massacres. MB First Deputy General Guide Mohamed Habib said in a statement that the MB in Egypt would continue to stage demonstrations and marches to criticize the events in Gaza, adding this was jihad on God's path.
