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By Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been criticised as a despot for crushing opposition lingering from a brie...

The Egyptian government is balancing the public's pro-Palestinian sentiment and calls for aid with a fear of facilitating a permanent displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. Potential domestic unrest also plays a role.

One of the main motivations behind the 2013 military coup was to counter potential violence and terrorism. Yet one of its main upshots has been a surge in violence and terrorism, committed by both state and non-state actors. By Omar Ashour

This week marks ten years since the largest mass killing in Egypt’s modern history. In 2013, Egyptian soldiers overran a protest camp in Cairo’s Rabaa Square, killing hundreds. Six weeks earlier, the military had overthrown the elected government of Muhammad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Supporters had created a protest city and its destruction still reverberates today. Nick Schifrin reports.

A decade after hundreds of Egyptians were killed in a single day when security forces dispersed a sit-in protest in Cairo, a new report released by a human rights group to coincide with the anniversary of the massacre has claimed that authorities debated but ultimately rejected potentially less lethal options to break up the demonstration.