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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
theintercept@journa.host ("The Intercept") wrote:

Yasin Elsamak, 22, and Ali Elsamak, 15, both U.S. citizens, were protesting the Egyptian government’s role in blockading the Rafah crossing into Gaza. We spoke to their parents. https://theintercept.com/2025/08/22/gaza-egypt-protest-nyc-un/

A photo of an NYPD officer standing guard at the Egyptian Mission to the U.N. in New York City as protesters call for an end to the starvation in Gaza on Aug. 12, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Egyptian Officials in New York Beat Two Gaza Protesters on Video. The NYPD Arrested the Protesters." and the DEK, "The protesters’ parents said the officials beat their sons with chains at Egypt’s U.N. mission. The NYPD arrested the brothers for assault."