Israel’s assistant in
the illegal blockade of Gaza, the Egyptian government, has been accused of crimes
against humanity by the US-based organisation Human Rights Watch.
The group claims it committed mass murder in its violent suppression of protests in Cairo last summer, which
cost more than 1,000 lives, and calls for the country’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, and
at least nine other senior security officials to be investigated for their role
in the massacres.
According to its report, the Egyptian authorities
presided over ‘one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single
day in recent history’ when they forcibly dispersed two big protest camps on August 14,
2013, leaving about 900 people dead.
One of those HRW
wants investigating is Mohamed Farid el-Tohamy, head of Egypt’s General
Intelligence Service, who met US Secretary of State, John Kerry, in Washington in
April.
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