Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi praises Palestinian “resistance” over the 21-day conflict with Israel in Gaza.
The Islamist leader, overthrown last July by Egypt’s then army chief and now President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is on trial on charges for which he faces the death penalty.
Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi in a soundproof barred glass cage is seen on a monitor. Morsi and 35 others are facing charges of conspiring with foreign groups and undermining national security. (AP Photo/Mohammed al-Law, File)
Under Morsi’s rule, Egypt brokered a truce in 2012 between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip, after they fought a similar deadly war. Hamas is an offshoot of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood group.
“Our compass is set on supporting Palestine against the usurping occupier and we are with any resistance against any occupier,” Morsi says in a message posted on his official Facebook page late Sunday.
“A full salute to those who resist and to the revolutionaries,” he says in remarks marking the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr that ends the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
— AFP
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