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AN Egyptian court banned the armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organisation on Saturday.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi claimed that the ban made sense because Egypt faced a tough, prolonged campaign against militancy.
“It will be difficult, strong, evil and will take a long time,” he said.
Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which the authorities have also declared a terrorist group and repressed thoroughly since the army ousted Mohamed Morsi from the presidency in 2013.
Hamas responded angrily: “It is a political, dangerous decision that serves only the zionist occupation,” said spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.
The case was based on allegations that the Qassam Brigades staged terrorist attacks to support the Brotherhood and carried out a bombing and shooting operation which killed 33 in the Sinai Peninsula in October 2014.
