According to Moussa Abu Marzouq, deputy-director of Hamas' political bureau, Omar Suleiman, the former director of the Egyptian General Intelligence service, was a "patriot who assisted and aided the Palestinian resistance." 

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said he won’t visit Israel, nor would he host an Israeli leader in Egypt, before peace is achieved between Israel and the Palestinians.

Gaza's smuggling economy has now become a billion-dollar industry, with a Hamas government committee overseeing the opening of new passages and the management of tunnels.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius paid tribute to Egypt as “a major power in the Middle East” as he sought to emphasise Europe’s desire for a two state solution to be realised to end Israeli- Palestinian conflict, in his meeting on Tuesday with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Ali Amr in Paris.

The Egyptian authorities have prevented the screening of a documentary on the country’s once-thriving Jewish community a day before it was due to debut in local cinemas, the film’s producer has said in a statement.

A Cairo court ruled on Tuesday the government must destroy all tunnels between Egypt and Gaza, removing a route for smuggled weapons for Palestinians.

For the first time since Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi took office, he will be sending a security delegation to Israel. 

A leading figure in Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's government has called the Holocaust a hoax invented by US intelligence operatives and claimed the 6 million Jews who were killed by the Nazis simply moved to the US.

Leon de Winter, a Dutch writer has declared that he will not pay taxes in protest of his country’s financial support of Egypt.

The New York Times has become the first global mainstream news outlet to publish an article about footage released 10 days earlier showing Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi going on an anti-Jewish rant during a television interview in 2010.