The city became known as Paraitonion in the Ptolemaic era.
On 4 December 2012, Morsi left his presidential palace after a number of protesters broke through police cordons around the palace, with some climbing atop an armored police vehicle and waving flags.
President Morsi also agreed there would be no further retrials of former officials under Hosni Mubarak, unless new evidence was presented.
While serving in this capacity in 2010, Morsi stated of the that "the two-state solution is nothing but a delusion concocted by the brutal usurper of the Palestinian lands.