{"id":27455,"date":"2018-12-30T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27455"},"modified":"2018-12-30T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T18:22:47","slug":"hamas-denies-mubarak-claim-it-sent-militants-to-egypt-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27455","title":{"rendered":"Hamas denies Mubarak claim it sent militants to Egypt in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1427771\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p>\nGAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza\u2019s Islamist rulers Hamas on Saturday denied an allegation by Egypt\u2019s deposed president Hosni Mubarak that it infiltrated hundreds of men across the border during the 2011 uprising.<br \/>Mubarak took to the witness stand in a Cairo court Wednesday to testify about jailbreaks allegedly orchestrated by his successor Muhammad Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.<br \/>The former president said he had received information at the time from his intelligence chief on infiltration by militants from the Gaza Strip to the country\u2019s east during the uprising.<br \/>\u201cGeneral Omar Suleiman informed me on January 29 (2011) that 800 armed militants infiltrated through the border,\u201d he said, adding that militants from Hamas, assisted by North Sinai residents, used underground tunnels to cross.<br \/>But Hamas said in a statement that it \u201cstrongly denies the claims made by Egypt\u2019s ousted president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak during his testimony in court.\u201d<br \/>\u201cMubarak claimed that Hamas sent 800 members to Cairo in order to release Palestinian, Egyptian, and Arab prisoners from the Egyptian jails,\u201d it said.<br \/>\u201cWhile Hamas deplores some parties\u2019 insistence to embroil the Palestinian movement into Egypt\u2019s internal affairs, it reiterates its commitment to its policy of not intervening in the internal affairs of other countries.\u201d<br \/>Mubarak was ousted in 2011 after three decades at the helm.<br \/>In March 2017, he was acquitted of charges of killing protesters, but he remains under investigation for alleged corruption.<br \/>Mursi ruled Egypt for just a year before mass protests spurred then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to overthrow him in July 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza\u2019s Islamist rulers Hamas on Saturday denied an allegation by Egypt\u2019s deposed president Hosni Mubarak that it infiltrated hundreds of men across the border during the 2011 uprising.Mubarak took to the witness stand in a Cairo court Wednesday to testify about jailbreaks allegedly orchestrated by his successor Muhammad Mursi and members&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}