Multiple news outlets are reporting that Egyptian police are preparing to move on the protest camps demanding the return of Mohammed Morsi to the Egyptian presidency.

A senior security source told Reuters “state security troops will be deployed around the sit-ins.” The Associated Press said security forces would be besieging the camps within 24 hours.

“It is worth noting that many people had thought that the government and the military would not act against this place, as long as Eid al-Fitr continues – and that is due to end tonight,” Al Jazeera’s Simon McGregor-Wood reported.

Protests continued through the weekend. A few hundred women marched in central Cairo shouting that army head Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was a traitor and killer.