Egyptians have poured into the Cairo streets staging a fresh rally against the newly-appointed government and its foreign backers.
Demonstrators gathered Friday for the first day in a planned week of protests against the government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, who is accused of being a puppet of the army trying to legalize corrupt policies.
Protesters chanted slogans against Egypt’s foreign backers including Middle Eastern and Arab states, which they say are supporting the military-installed government.
The demonstrators also shouted slogans against the interference of Israel and the United States in Egypt’s internal affairs.
The week of protests was announced by Egypt’s National Alliance to Support Legitimacy on Thursday.
“We will continue our peaceful resistance in another revolutionary week of protests called ‘We will not be ruled by Zionists or Americans’,” the group said in a statement.
Photos of Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi along with the flags of the United States, Israel and the UAE, will be burned at the rallies, the alliance added.
This is while an Egyptian court on Tuesday banned Hamas activities in the country and ordered its assets seized.
Anti-government protesters have held rallies almost on a daily basis in Egypt, following the army’s toppling of the country’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in July.
Egypt’s new military-installed government has launched a deadly crackdown on protests, killing more than 1,000 people so far.
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