Egyptians Attack Israel Embassy, Ambassador Said to Flee

“The embassy itself has not been breached,” an Israeli Foreign Ministry official told Reuters in Jerusalem. An Egyptian security supply confirmed that the embassy offices had not been entered.

Witnesses said activists managed to induce a hold of some documents belonging to the Israeli embassy and threw them out of the building windows. a bunch of protesters took down the Israeli flag and hurled it from the building.

The official said the documents thrown from the windows of the tower housing the embassy appeared to be “pamphlets and forms kept at the foyer.”

The demonstrators conjointly tried to storm the native police compound, hurled stones at the police and torched a minimum of four vehicles. They conjointly set a public building adjacent to the police compound on fireplace.

Police responded by firing teargas and blanks into the air, witnesses said.

“This action shows the state of anger and frustration the young Egyptian revolutionaries feel against Israel particularly after the recent Israeli attacks on the Egyptian borders that led to the killing of Egyptian troopers,” Egyptian political analyst Nabil Abdel Fattah told Reuters.

CHEERS AS WALL fell

Egyptian police stood aside as activists tore down the concrete wall to the cheers of many demonstrators, witnesses said..

“It is nice that Egyptians say they will do something and really do it,” Egyptian film director and activist Khaled Youssef said, standing among the protesters outside the embassy.

“They said they will demolish the wall and that they did … the military council has to abide by the demands of the Egyptian folks,” he said.

Friday’s demonstrations were organized mostly by secular groups that had been pushing for reforms, a new constitution and an end to the trial of civilians before military courts.

Islamists, including the political party discovered by the Muslim Brotherhood — Egypt’s best organized political force after the dissolution of Mubarak’s National democratic Party — have distanced themselves from the planned protests.

The country’s military rulers have promised at hand back power to a civilian government after elections, that they said would be held before the top of 2011. The council has conjointly facilitated the trial of Mubarak and several other of his aides, including former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli, on charges of corruption or conspiring to kill some 850 demonstrators.