A group of mostly young Egyptians was trying to organize an uprising using the Internet until the government cracked-down on the dissidents, the dissidents say. Ahmed Maher, 27, was hopeful that technology would be the avenue to a freer Egypt, he told The Washington Post.

Muslim demonstrators attacked visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher on Monday as he tried to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site, in the Old City of Jerusalem, witnesses said.

An Israeli raid on a Gaza refugee camp killed five Palestinians Tuesday in a flare-up of violence that came just hours after a high-level Egyptian peace mission to Israel.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher returned home after his one-day peace mission to Israel deteriorated into a shoving match with Palestinian extremists that landed him in the hospital.

An Israeli raid on a Gaza refugee camp killed eight Palestinians on Tuesday in a flare-up of violence that came just hours after a high-level Egyptian peace mission to Israel.