Palestinians in Gaza Hold Vigils For Slain Egyptians
No one is watching the events unfold in Egypt as closely as Palestinians in Gaza, whose future is tied to the crisis that its larger neighbor is going through.
Gaza's streets were empty as the majority of stores remained closed and most of the Strip's residents were glued to their televisions screens, watching the events unfold of the violent dispersal by the Egyptian army of the Muslim Brotherhood's camps in Nahda and Rabia al-Adawiya squares in Cairo on the morning of Aug. 14.
A surgeon named Talal al-Sharif, 59, was unable to leave his patients, so he simply watched television in the clinic's waiting room along with his colleagues. Everyone expressed their opinion on what was happening, and the likely international reactions that would follow.
