#Jan25 : A Real New Hope

I remember that I called Mohamed ElBaradei as a new hope in Egypt , well  what I have seen by my own eyes and heard by my own ears. If millions were and are at their homes , thousands , real thousands took the streets across the country and it started with Facebook invitation and a revolution in a sister country

New Hope 

I live in Mohendessin and the first place I tried to cover was Gamat Al Doul street  and Mustafa square, I thought that the protest would start at 2 PM but I was wrong when I went all what I found CSF vehicles moving around. It turned out that the protest started earlier and turned a march that moved in to Al-Batal Ahmed Abdel Aziz street then in to Tahrir street in order to reach Cairo and Tahrir Square , Down Town.
A friend of the family living at Gamat Al Doul street described a scene she has not seen in her entire life in that upscale neighborhood , thousands "estimation of 10,000 protesters" flooding like an angry river  chanting angry anti-Mubarak regime chants.

In Gamat Al Doul Al Arabia street

I was in a car so I moved easily to the October bridge in order to head to Down Town Cairo protests , the bridge was moving too slowly because the security diverted all the traffic down town in a way you can imagine. We reached to the Egyptian museum and all what I can see from far was a large group of people and some Egyptian flags.

We tried all the streets down town that end at Al Tahrir square and all what I found is a dead end , all streets were blocked. The Abdeen Palace was blocked at the same way.
Later I knew that the protest of Al Tahrir street and it was stuck at the Galaa bridge thus after a lot of adventures at Cairo and later at Zamalak I reached to the Galaa bridge I found the protest moving in its way to Cairo to Kasr Al Nil bridge in order to reach to Al Tahrir square.

The security forces attacked the protesters and this is something I witnessed it with my own eyes.

All bridges between Cairo and Giza are being blocked to the moment of writing down this post. A relative of mine working in the National TV building tell us that the they are under siege in the country.
Today I feel that fear wall began to fall down.
Twitter has been blocked in Egypt , a stupid move because there are other alternatives like Hoot Suite.
More to come insh Allah.

• Thousands have taken the streets of Alexandria , Mahalla, Ismailia , Port Said and Aswan. The numbers are incredible. 
• The protesters in North Sinia have reportedly cut the international highway .  
• Here are photos from Ahmed Abdel from Mahalla earlier today "through his mobile phones"

Protesters tearing down Mubarak photo 

• Here is a snap shot for the protests in Alexandria "not less than 20,000" 

• This great video presents to us an Egypitan Tainanem square moment at Kasr Al Nil street where the security forces attacked the protesters."Radio Hortyana"

• There are clashes at Tahrir square , about thousands of activists and regular people "for the first time" are there. Some were injured , some were arrested . They can't use their mobiles , we are asking the people who live there to open their Wi-Fi networks to help them. We got updates that activists. This photo from AFP at Daily News Egypt can give an idea on what is going on there now. 

A New scene "AFP"

• Mrs. Hilary Clinton has issued unneeded press statement about what is happening in Egypt , what parties she is speaking about , it is only the regime and the people !!
• Follow The Guardian live updated page.
• There was a protest earlier today in Fayoum "we do not know what happened to it" 

• Here are photos from Mahmoud Saber , Emad Abdel Rahman  who took this wonderful shot 

• Here is a protest in Tanta of Gharbia governorate 

• The website of NDP is suddenly unavailable , we do not know if it is hacked or not 
• There is unconfirmed rumor that the government will block the Facebook in two hours. 
• Here are photos from inside the sieged Al Tahrir square itself through her blackberry phone 

• Here is another video from Al Wafd portal showing some citizens at the underground suffering from tear gas grenades 

• Here is a video from Sinai from our friend Al-Anay in North Sinai , there were not less than 300 protests including women and children protesting the Mubarak regime policies. 

• The MOI issued a statement accusing of the Muslim brotherhood of launching that protest !! They are claiming that there are injured soldiers. 
• Hundreds of activists are allegedly arrested today and also a number of protesters were injured and transferred to the hospitals. 
• There is a curfew imposed in Suez 
• There are violent clashes in Mahalla that have started from an hour ago "I think the thugs were let in by the police to destroy the properties in the area" 
• Here are photos from Demotix, AP, Reuters, Getty and AFP

• My friend Tarek Shalaby published what he filmed today live in the protests.
• UStream is blocked in Egypt 
• I received updates that two protesters were killed tonight in Suez City by the security forces' live ammunition.
• A police solider was killed called Ahmed Aziz 
• About 7000 protesters in Alexandria are at Misr station having a sit in, there are also thousands of protesters there heading to Bibilo. Alexandria to have a sit in there also . Not less than 30,000 protesters went to streets today in Alex. Here are more photos from APN
• Here are videos from Alexandria 

• Tear gas grenades are being fired tonight now at Tahrir square. Here is the latest photo there along with some videos. Some protesters want to go home but the security does not let them out of the cordon. 

• Here are also more updated videos "Now it is 10:49 PM Cairo local time" 

• According to Al Shorouk news : 4 thousand people protest coming from Shobra have now joined Al Tahrir Square, Cairo, with tents and loads of food and supplies to support protesters in Tahrir.
• A photo from Marsa Matrouh from couple of hours ago , we have not heard anything from our friend in Matrouh Mr. Ayman Shawky , the city council member so I assume there is or was a lot of action there 

Matrouh "We are all Khaled Said group"

• More impressive and breathtaking photos from Adam Makary  and from Hossam Awaga  from Cairo.
• Protesters tore down the posters of Mubarak and his son whenever they saw them today all over the Egyptian republic "Even outside the Egyptian Republic"

The infamous NDP sign at Al Tahrir sq.
Hossam Agwa 

In Cairo 

In Alex

In Mansoura 

Again in Mahalla

• Now it is 11:10 PM CLT Al  Jazeera is claiming that the Egyptian authorities are studying the possibilities to impose curfew in Cairo 
• About 77 injured from civilians are lying in two hospitals in Suez city. There is curfew imposed in the city following the murder of the second citizen. 
• The names of the Suez victims or heroes who shot dead today there are : Seliman Saber Ali - 40yrs and Mostafa Ragb Abdelfatah - 25 yrs
• I know about the rumor that Gamal Mubarak has fled the country with his family to UK , despite all the British connections we know about Gamal yet I do not think that this is true , it could be a rumor thanks to the the fact that the sources are not credible 
• Here is a video from the protest today earlier , Ayman Nour and the Wafd members marching Down Town

• Anonymous group "the anonymous group of hackers" has brought down the MOI website 

MOI official website 

• More photos from our friend Miral 

It is 12:50 AM CLT now and our friends in Al Tahrir square are currently under huge attack from the security forces that are firing cannons of tear gas. Mass arrests are taking place in the streets of Al Tahrir. Many are injured. Ambulances are heading to the place
These tear gas grenades are made in the USA

The death toll in Suez city has increased to 7 civilians 

It is now 1:28 AM CLT the Tahrir square is reportedly cleaned out , about 6-12 are injured and transfered to hospital according to Al Jazeera talk. Many activists are being arrested and transferred to unknown places like Dr. Mustafa Al Nagar, the current coordinator of Elbaradei support campaign. The protesters who managed to escape the wrath of the security are reorganizing them to have a new protest  

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