Egypt Squatters Lose Homes As State Seizes Land

Hala Gamal looks at a pile of rubble on Cairo’s Warraq island — all that’s left of her house after a police operation to evict residents accused of squatting on state land. Gamal, 31, said she had left the Nile island in the capital’s north on July 16 to buy breakfast. She returned to find … Read more