Photo Gallery A People Divided
Over 600 people lost their lives on Wednesday according to Egyptian authorities. But the violence has not led to much reflection, with both sides digging in. Khaled Daud, spokesman for the National Salvation Front, a collection of 11 liberal political parties, says the events of Wednesday cannot be called a massacre. The protesters could have left peacefully, he says.
A man on Thursday walks across one of the sit-in camps that was violently cleared on Wednesday in a police offensive that resulted in at least 620 deaths. Empathy between the two sides has been rare.
A woman in a Cairo mosque mourns over the body of her daughter. Many of the killed have been stored temporarily in mosques.
The Iman Mosque in the Nasr City neighborhood of Cairo has likewise been turned into a morgue. Many of those who protested excessive police violence just weeks ago have been silent in the face of Wednesday's massacre of Muslim Brotherhood supporters.
Muslims seek to bury their dead family members on the same day, or at least within 24 hours. But authorities have been slow to hand out death certificates, a prerequisite for burial. Some believe that the state is concerned that the funerals could trigger renewed violence.
A man working on a long list of the dead who have been identified.
This victim was able to be buried immediately. It is a policeman who was killed in the Wednesday violence.
On Thursday, these supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi mourn the dead. Next to them are numerous bodies wrapped in shrouds.
Scenes of destruction: A man walks inside the burned out Rabaa Adawiya Mosque on Thursday morning.
Police used brutal and deadly force as they cleared out two Muslim Brotherhood sit-in protest camps on Wednesday. Europe and the US have both called for an end to the violence.
The Wednesday street battles left behind scenes of destruction, such as this one outside the Rabaa Adawiya Mosque.
Protesters were armed with stones, but police and security forces responded with live ammunition.
Ripped tents and torn up posters testify to the violence that befell demonstrators on Nahda Square on Wednesday.
A man with posters of Egyptian Defense Minister al-Sissi as he helps clean up the rubble left behind after the raid on a Muslim Brotherhood sit-in protest.
Since the first reports of violence on Wednesday, the death toll has continued to climb. On Friday, it was confirmed that more than 620 people were killed.
This young Egyptian man was wounded in the Wednesday clashes and was treated at a makeshift hospital.
Sissi and the military leadership has imposed a state of emergency for the next month.
