The Hamas Movement has categorically denied the claims made recently by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in a court hearing about the infiltration of Palestinian gunmen from Gaza into Egyptian territory during the 2011 revolution.
“We unequivocally deny what has been stated in Mubarak’s testimony about sending 800 elements by Hamas to Cairo to release Egyptian Palestinian and Arab prisoners from Egyptian jails during the January revolution” Hamas said in a press release on Saturday.
“While Hamas deplores some parties’ attempts to embroil the Palestinian movement into Egypt’s internal affairs it reiterates its commitment to its policy of not intervening in the internal affairs of other countries” it added.
Mubarak was brought to the witness stand in a Cairo court last Wednesday to testify about jailbreaks allegedly orchestrated by his successor Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The former president claimed that he had received information at the time from his intelligence chief on alleged infiltration by 800 gunmen from the Gaza Strip to the country’s during the 2011 uprising to help prisoners escape.
