CAIRO: Police have arrested 32 Muslim Brotherhood members over the past two days, the Islamists and security officials said on Wednesday.
Twelve men were arrested in raids on Wednesday morning in Fayoum province south of Cairo for suspected involvement in an attempt to bring medical supplies to Gaza earlier this month, the Brotherhood said on its website.
On Tuesday, police arrested 14 Brotherhood members in the Mediterranean town of Port Said, another five in Cairo and one in Beni Sueif, also south of the capital, on similar grounds, the Brotherhood said.
Egyptian police detained more than 30 activists earlier this month when they organized a convoy of medical supplies to Rafah, the only border crossing in the impoverished Palestinian coastal strip not controlled by Israel.
Egypt occasionally permits people to enter and leave Gaza, but has refused to open the Rafah crossing permanently. – AFP
