Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Israel of killing civilians as they attempted to flee a stricken neighbourhood of Gaza, in what it said would amount to a war crime.

At least 11 "terrorists" were killed in a security crackdown in several areas in North Sinai, the army spokesperson said in a statement on Monday.

Egypt is pressing for a 72-hour Gaza ceasefire to be held Tuesday, Palestinian officials said, just hours after Hamas accused Israel of trying to scuttle Cairo truce talks.

The Administrative Court decided on Monday to issue a verdict in 10 lawsuits demanding the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) on 6 August.

The South Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday postponed the trial of Mohamed al-Zawahiri, brother of the al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and 67 others to 9 August due to a malfunction in the microphone, as the judge could not hear the defendants from inside the glass dock.

The Egyptian Popular Current – the political movement of former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi – has denied accusations that one of its members, Amr Saleh, belongs to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

An Egyptian criminal court on Sunday postponed the case against the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and a number of the group's top members for inciting murder outside of a Giza mosque last year to 7 August.

The Salafist Nour Party will delay the announcement of its stance on the forthcoming parliamentary elections until the issuance of the law of dividing governorates, said party spokesperson Nader Bakar Sunday.

The trial of over 50 leading Muslim Brotherhood members, including the group's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, on charges of setting up a "control room" to direct violence and chaos across the country during last summer's upheaval has been adjourned by a Cairo criminal court to 16 August.

Jihadists raised their black flag in Iraq’s northern town of Sinjar Sunday in a second straight day of advances against Kurdish forces, sparking mass displacement the U.N. called a humanitarian tragedy.

The jihadist Islamic State has imposed a strict dress code for women in eastern Syria, forbidding them from showing any part of their bodies, a monitoring group said on Thursday.

Militants fired gunshots Thursday on the checkpoint centralized outside the National Security building in Suez governorate, Youm7 reported.

A fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and Islamic State jihadists has killed nearly 50 fighters from both sides as the Kurds seized several IS POSITIONS, a monitoring group said Thursday.

Women in Damietta are forbidden from receiving communion if they are wearing trousers or make-up, according to new rules issued by Bishop Bishoy of Damietta, Youm7 reported Thursday.

Some leaders from the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, formed to support the legitimacy of toppled President Mohamed Morsy, called on its supporters to abandon their peaceful tactics in protests scheduled for 14 August on the anniversary of Rabaa al-Adaweya and al-Nahda sit-in dispersals, adding it is their last chance to confront the current regime.

The Sunday service had been taking place in a morning of quietness and calm, a rare chance of reflection amid the turbulence of war. That ended as the last prayers were being held, the sound of air strikes and tank rounds echoing not far from the church: the ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ was over.

A car bomb on Wednesday killed three people in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Reuters reported, citing Egypt’s state-run Nile Television.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempts to sideline Egypt in Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks has forced the Egyptian government to move closer to Hamas’ positions in Gaza, according to an Egyptian official involved with the truce talks who spoke to WND on condition of anonymity.

Nour Party’s stance contradicts with the Salafi Call (al-Da’wa al-Salafiyya) over the Endowment Ministry’s decision to ban non-Azhar scholars to take the stands in mosques during Eid al-Fitr unless they are licensed from the ministry to deliver sermons.

Jailed Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti has called for national and international support to Gaza in the face of Israel’s ongoing military assault on the embattled enclave.

A Palestinian delegation, including representatives from Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, are to meet with Egyptian officials on ending the violence in Gaza, Al-Arabiya reported.