Cairo rocked by bomb blasts

In what has become a daily routine in Egypt, the country awoke on Tuesday to the news of five new bombings.
The explosions in Matariya, in the capital Cairo, targeted stores and cars belonging to foreign communication companies.

But this was not the case in one of Monday’s four bombings, when two people were killed and several injured, in an attack that targeted the premises of the higher judicial house, and the office of the prosecutor general.

The fact that explosions, are now hitting the country’s biggest cities in Nile Delta, the Mediterranean, and Upper Egypt, has made many Egyptians worried that groups affiliated to ISIL Takfiri terrorists, active in the Sinai peninsula, have now reached the heart of the country.

Pro-government analysts accuse the Muslim Brotherhood of being behind the bombings.

But revolutionary punishment groups, who have distanced themselves from the Brotherhood, say they don’t target civilians, and add that they are only after those who have killed revolutionaries in a country where justice is totally absent.

But, Egyptian activists say the government could be behind these bombings, in order to justify its violent crackdown against opponents.

Figures show Egypt’s military-backed government has jailed nearly 16,000 people since July 2013. Rights groups say over 1,000 people have been killed in the political violence since the ouster of Morsi, most of them due to excessive force used by security forces.

Sharply divided Egyptians are frustrated with the unabated bloodshed now threatening everyone across the country, and with no clear end in sight to the divide, Egypt remains very much on the edge.