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CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday (Jan 31) banned the armed wing of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, declaring it a "terrorist" group. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, denounced the ruling against the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades as "a dangerous political decision that serves the interests of the occupier", referring to Israel.
Since Egypt's military ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, the authorities have accused Hamas of aiding militants who have waged a string of deadly attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
Saturday's court verdict followed a complaint from a lawyer accusing the Hamas armed wing of direct involvement in "terrorist operations" in the Sinai, which borders Gaza, a court official said. The lawyer also accused the movement of using tunnels under the frontier between Egypt and Gaza to smuggle arms used in attacks against the police and army, the official said. Egypt's military says it has destroyed more than 1,600 tunnels since Morsi's ouster.
Egypt court rules Hamas armed wing terror group - Channel NewsAsia
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday (Jan 31) banned the armed wing of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, declaring it a "terrorist" group. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, denounced the ruling against the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades as "a dangerous political decision that serves the interests of the occupier", referring to Israel.
Since Egypt's military ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, the authorities have accused Hamas of aiding militants who have waged a string of deadly attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
Saturday's court verdict followed a complaint from a lawyer accusing the Hamas armed wing of direct involvement in "terrorist operations" in the Sinai, which borders Gaza, a court official said. The lawyer also accused the movement of using tunnels under the frontier between Egypt and Gaza to smuggle arms used in attacks against the police and army, the official said. Egypt's military says it has destroyed more than 1,600 tunnels since Morsi's ouster.
Egypt court rules Hamas armed wing terror group - Channel NewsAsia