24 January, 2015, Cairo, Egypt. Shaimaa al-Sabbagh lies in the street unconscious. A colleague from her political party tries to make her stand up, but he cannot. A policeman has shot her with a buckshot bullet, shortly while she was fighting for the right to protest.

Israel continues to maintain a full, tight closure by land, sea, and air, on the only coastal enclave left to Palestine. This has become even worse since July, as the Egyptian government closes the Rafah crossing.

Egyptian rights groups condemn lethal violence against non-violent demonstrators and terrorist acts of the Muslim Brotherhood and claim the state must immediately adopt a serious plan to contain the violence and restore the political process.