An Egyptian court has declared Hamas a “terrorist” organisation, weeks after the Palestinian movement’s armed wing was given the same designation, reports said.A judicial source told AFP news agency that the court issued the verdict on Saturday, a ruling seen as keeping with a systematic crackdown on Islamist groups by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.The verdict resulted from two separate private suits filed by two lawyers against the de facto rulers of the Gaza Strip.In an interview with Al Jazeera, Ghazi Hamad, a deputy foreign minister, rejected the court decision as “very dangerous.”“They are now saying that the [Palestinian] resistance and struggle against the occupation is a crime,” he said.Mustafa Barghouti, a senior Palestinian official who is neither from Hamas or Fatah, told Al Jazeera in aseparate interview that the verdict “is a very unwise decision” that carries political complication.“Hamas is part of the Palestinian national unity movement, and this decision is not useful.”
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