Sunday, March 01, 2015
Elder of ZiyonThe Cairo Court for Urgent Matters on Saturday ruled Hamas a terrorist organisation, a month after the group's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, was also designated a terror group by the same court.Hamas wasted no time to stage rallies for their captive Gaza population, carefully stage-managing the signs that people would hold.
The verdict resulted from two separate private suits filed by Samir Sabry and Ashraf Said, both lawyers, against the de facto rulers of the Gaza Strip.
The relationship between Egypt's authorities and the Islamist group has soured since the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian sister organisation.
Egypt has accused Hamas of meddling into its internal affairs and supporting Islamist insurgents in Sinai, accusations that the group has repeatedly denied.
The court's reasoning on Saturday for designating Hamas a terrorist organisation mirrored its January Al-Qassam ruling.
In January, the court said that Al-Qassam's and Hamas' "support and financing of terrorist attacks in Egypt show that they have swayed from their original cause of fighting the Israeli occupation."
In recent months, the Egyptian government has been strengthening penalties for acts of terrorism in its penal code.
Last week, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has also signed a sweeping new anti-terrorism legislation to counter "Terrorist Entities".
Yet even those signs celebrated Hamas terror, showing masked terrorists shooting rockets at Israeli civilians!
Hamas media started its counteroffensive, insulting Egypt and also celebrating Hamas terrorism.
They are also calling this "collective punishment" for Gazans.
Egyptians don't seem to be concerned about this in the least.
