Hamas no longer accepts Egypt as Israel mediator, source close to group says
Hamas on Saturday dismissed an Egyptian court’s decision to declare its armed wing, Izzadin Kassam, a terrorist organization.
“The court ruled to ban the Kassam Brigades and to list it as a terrorist group,” Judge Muhammad al-Sayid of the special Cairo court that deals with urgent cases said earlier in the day. Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
The ruling came two days after a series of terrorist attacks killed 30 Egyptians and wounded 45 others in Sinai.
Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip condemned the decision as “dangerous and unacceptable.”