Ruling Against Hamas An Affront to Egypt
In press remarks on Saturday, Resheq said that such a decision does not frighten or affect the Palestinian resistance, but it was unexpected from an Arab country.
"It is not something surprising for the Hamas Movement to be seen terrorist by the Zionist entity that has occupied our land…but the unexpected is that a country like Egypt considers Hamas a terrorist group, while the West started to reconsider its position towards the Movement and the European Court of Justice recently removed its name from its terror list," the Hamas official stated.
He stressed that the "Israeli occupation has always been a direct threat to Egypt's national security while the Palestinian resistance spearheaded by Hamas has been the first line of defense protecting Egypt and its national security."
The Egyptian court for urgent matters in Cairo on Saturday ruled that the Hamas Movement was a terrorist organization after lawyer Samir Sabri filed a lawsuit in this regard.
Another senior Hamas official Yehya Mousa also denounced the court ruling as "insulting" to Egypt, its army and people, and "beyond logic, reason and Arab values."
"Such verdicts need no comment, but we have to express our deep pity for the Egyptian state and what has happened to it because of its policies," Mousa stated in a press release.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, in his turn, described the court decision as politicized and serving the Israeli occupation.
Source: PIC
