CAIRO: An Egyptian court listed the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, judicial sources said yesterday, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamists in the most populous Arab state.
While a court ruled in January that Hamas’ armed wing was a terrorist organisation, yesterday’s broader ruling against the entire group has potentially greater consequences for the already strained relationship between Cairo and Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip on Egypt’s border.
“The Egyptian court’s decision to list the Hamas movement as a terror organisation is shocking and is dangerous, and it targets the Palestinian people and its factions of resistance,” Hamas said in a statement after the ruling. “It will have no influence on the Hamas movement,” Hamas said.
Reuters
