CAIRO - Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf summoned his cabinet crisis team and the Interior Ministry put police on alert and canceled police holidays, state media said on Saturday, following a wave of violence and attempts to storm the Israeli embassy in Cairo.Hundreds of people were hurt in clashes between police and demonstrators who tried to invade the Israeli embassy and a nearby police compound, while police used teargas and fired shots in the air to disperse protesters.
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)