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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Fri Apr 8, 2011 5:59PM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">Over one million Egyptian protesters staged a rally in Cairo&#8217;s Liberation Square on April 8, 2011</div>
<div id="divLead">Over  one million Egyptian protesters in Cairo&#8217;s Liberation square have  demanded their military rulers to abandon Israel and lift the blockade  on the besieged Gaza strip.</div>
<p>Protesters voiced their anger at Tel Aviv by burning the Israeli  flag and demanding the Liberation of Palestine, a Press TV correspondent  said.</p>
<p>They promised to stand by Gazans, who have been suffering Israeli attacks and its four-year long crippling siege.</p>
<p>Many protesters headed toward the US Embassy from Liberation Square to protest Israel&#8217;s deadly attacks on Gaza.</p>
<p>The Israeli flag was torn to pieces, when protesters tried to raise Palestinian flag above the Israeli embassy.</p>
<p>The development comes two months after a historic revolution ousted President Hosni Mubarak.</p>
<p>Protesters also demanded the prosecution of officials belonging to  the former regime &#8211;mainly the ousted president Mubarak and his family.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s toppled regime under Mubarak served the interests of Israel by assisting and keeping silent on the killing of Gazans.</p>
<p>Egypt has imposed a blockade on Gaza since the democratically  elected Hamas government took control of the territory in 2007. Since  then Israel has imposed a crippling blockade on the territory triggering  a humanitarian crisis.</p>
<p>A major Egyptian political party, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), has  recently demanded that the country&#8217;s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces  takes action in breaking the siege of Gaza.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s political parties say the Gaza blockade serves the interests  of Israel and the US and threatens regional stability and independence.</p>
<p>This is while Israeli officials have been repeatedly threatening to launch a fresh major offensive against Gaza.</p>
<p>They say such an onslaught could be even more destructive and deadly  than the one at the turn of 2009, which killed over 1,400 Palestinians  &#8212; many of them women and children.</p>
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