Today, Wednesday, Egypt is organizing a military funeral in Cairo for former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who died yesterday at the age of 92.

Senior military officials are expected to participate in the funeral of Mubarak in the Fifth District suburb of eastern Cairo, but it is not clear whether President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will attend.

State television stated that Mubarak's body would be airlifted from the mosque where he will be prayed to where he will be buried.

Earlier, Al-Jazeera Net correspondent Mohamed Abdullah said that Mubarak's official funeral will begin after midday prayers at the Al-Mosheer Mosque in the east of Cairo, adding that the security forces have raised the level of readiness at Cairo airport pending the arrival of international delegations expected to participate in the funeral of Mubarak.

And yesterday, Egyptian TV announced the death of former President Hosni Mubarak after suffering from the disease, and after that he called the Egyptian presidency and the armed forces Mubarak as one of the heroes of the 1973 war with Israel, during which he was commander of the Air Force, while the presidency declared the general mourning three days.

The Al-Jazeera correspondent, Khaled Al-Masry, had said - quoting a security source - that Mubarak had died in the intensive care room of the Al-Galaa Military Hospital in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

According to eyewitnesses who spoke to Al-Jazeera Net, high-ranking personalities arrived with their own cars, as were the sons of former President Alaa and Jamal.

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Illness and trials
Mubarak was admitted to Al-Galaa Hospital on the morning of January 21st last January, and after medical examinations he had undergone on Friday, 24th of the same month, a stomach tumor was removed, and he was then transferred to the intensive care room.

Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years, before popular protests overthrew him in 2011, and he spent a few years after that in prison and in military hospitals, before his release in 2017.

An Egyptian court had sentenced Mubarak to life imprisonment for participating in the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising, but he was released in 2017 after he was acquitted of the charges.

In 2015 he and two sons were convicted of transferring public funds to the family's property development account, and were sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

Mubarak said that history will judge him as a patriotic man who served his country faithfully, but many Egyptians view his era as an era of tyranny.