Cairo - An Egyptian court on Saturday declared Hamas a "terrorist" organisation, a judicial source said, weeks after the Palestinian Islamist movement's armed wing was given the same designation.
Since Egypt's military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, the authorities have accused Hamas of aiding jihadists who have waged a string of deadly attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
An Egyptian court on 31 January banned the armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, declaring it a "terrorist" group.