CAIRO (Ma'an) -- Chairman of the board at Al-Ahram Al-Arabi magazine Mamdouh Al-Wali said Friday that he does not intervene editorially in what the magazine publishes and had no role in the story linking Hamas to the deaths of Egyptian soldiers.
Al-Wali told the Egyptian newspaper al-Watan that there were now contacts between the magazine's editor in chief and Hamas leaders in Gaza to resolve the issue and to post a formal reply by the Palestinian side on Al-Ahram magazine.
A day earlier Hamas’ military wing said it would sue the editor-in-chief of the magazine over a report Thursday accusing Hamas leaders of killing Egyptian soldiers in the northern Sinai.
“We will file legal proceedings against the editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram over his false claims,” al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Ubayda told a news conference in Gaza City Thursday.
“Those writers should have prioritized siding with the Palestinian people.”
Abu Ubayda added that the resistance maintained strong relations with both the Egyptian leadership and the people after the revolution. “The Egyptian people know quite well who the al-Qassam Brigades and Gaza resistance are. The people supported resistance and some did not like that.”
The news conference came after Egypt’s attorney general received a notification from a lawyer urging the AG to take into account reports in Al-Ahram Al-Arabi related to an August attack against an Egyptian military base near the border with Gaza in Rafah killing 16 soldiers. more
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