Activists through social media platforms in Egypt have commemorated the tenth anniversary of the events known in the media as the "Battle of the Camel", which took place on February 2, 2011, and was a milestone in the course of the January 25 2011 revolution, which ended 18 days later with the president's resignation. Hosni Mubarak from power, which he spent 3 decades.
The site bore this name after armed thugs on camels and horses attacked the protesters at Tahrir Square, located in the heart of the capital, Cairo.
As a result, 14 martyrs were killed, and more than 1500 rebels were wounded.
Several interactions emerged through the hashtag “# the camel site,” where Twitter users saw that it was the last attempt by the Mubarak regime to regain control.
Tweeters participated in the events of this day, and some of them recounted how they were able to protect Tahrir Square, stressing that it will always be in their memory.
The account "killed in Egypt" documented the names of the martyrs who died in the battle of the camel, the circumstances of death and the testimonies of relatives, indicating that the killers have not been punished so far.
On this day
February 2, 2011: The revolutionaries confront Mubarak's thugs and the National Party in the "Battle of the Camels" in Tahrir Square pic.twitter.com/pwVy0mzAjo
- Revolutionary Socialists (@RevSocMe) February 2, 2021
# The battle of the camel was the end day for Mubarak 10 years ago, after which he fell not only in Egypt, but was the end moment for no sympathy at the international level or hope for it and in his regime that ended with this barbaric scene that the world saw that sympathized with the revolutionaries
who held out in Tahrir Square and defeated his aggression
Who created and led pic.twitter.com/eUJUefojwj
- Osama Rushdi (@OsamaRushdi) February 2, 2021
The day of valor ... the day of Muhammad Al-Beltagy
Even if despair seeps into the field of the revolutionaries, the second of February came, the day of separation between brokenness and victory, to revive the revolution again.
- wael kandil (@ waiel65) February 1, 2021
On this day 10 years ago, he attacked Mules, Donkeys, Jamal, and the horses of the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square, at the instigation of deputies such as Abdel Nasser Al-Jabri, ministers like Aisha Abdel Hadi, businessmen like Murtaza Mansour, and politicians like Safwat Al-Sharif,
and he died in
Site
11 and wounded 2000, however, the court acquitted all the accused in October 2012 # signed_jamel pic. twitter.com/OQIQ1myTai
- tarek abosherafa (@ tareksherafa1) February 2, 2021
Ten years since the January revolution ... we re-publish the testimony of Khaled Al-Balshi Sabah, The Battle of the Camel: When the sky rained with Molotov cocktails and bullets, “Signs of victory” ... (Memories of January)
“Youth of Tahrir” To be pure, hero, martyr and dreamer for life .. when Egypt said it exists https://t.co/nIm4hrL9O5
- khaledelbalshy (@khaledelbalshy) February 2, 2021
A day difference in the revolution and the field
February 2, 2011 # His_jamal pic.twitter.com/ofmTZi9GWp
- Abdulrahman Mashaal (@ abdomashal22) February 1, 2021
The commemoration of # The Camel Battle ...
on February 2, 11, the regime's last attempt to disperse # Tahrir with thugs on camels and horses, 14 were martyred and dozens were wounded ... then the army left the thugs and the judiciary acquitted them pic.twitter.com/NbeGUONmam
Omar Mahmoud (@ghasekk) February 2, 2021
Sameh Jamal (24 years old), only brother of his two sisters, graduated from the Tourism College to take care of his mother and two sisters after the death of his father, he used to joke with them that if God wanted him to be a martyr, he would intercede for them with his Lord.
He joined the evening # signed_jamal to the defenders of Tahrir, and two bullets hit him from a sniper that ended his life https://t.co/8fDOjC6AJE pic.twitter.com/oqS43fTOxn
- KilledinEgypt (@KillednEgypt) February 2, 2021
Amr Gharib, one of the young men participating in the January 25 revolution since its first day, was a man of the house after the departure of his father in 2006. He was martyred in the #jamal_jamal by the thugs of the National Party while he was defending a girl he did not know. : //t.co/SuoQCUexg4 pic.twitter.com/JEL28PNyQK
- KilledinEgypt (@KillednEgypt) February 2, 2021
# The Battle of the Camels, the last attempt of the Mubarak regime to regain matters and control again, and the army was responsible for securing the roads at that time, but the quail thugs and the regime's thugs were crazed by camels and horses in their pockets and blew them after bypassing the army's ambushes ..
Younis (@ 1998_younis) February 2, 2021
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The 10-year anniversary of Al-Jamal ... businessman Naguib Sawiris pic.twitter.com/Ybe8FgGwk3
- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) February 2, 2021