ages and genders that took part in the streets the gathered in tahrir square in alexandria and suez mahal and so forth that is probably the best assessment of the mubarak regime because in it you will find people who are either young and felt that they had no future in an egypt that was ruled with such authoritarianism or that had very little economic prosperity you found older people who were struggling to put needs to provide for their families you have those from all those different sections who essentially realized that the only way to maybe make their life a bit better was to force out the president's. life there from this thank you. but we're getting more reaction now from regional leaders palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has praised mubarak's commitments to the palestinian cause and israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu held beliefs egyptian leader for his pursuit of course peace and security there is. on behalf of the people of israel i wish to express deep sorrow over the death of president hosni mubarak he was a personal friend of mine a leader to lead his people to peace an