The Hamas government in Gaza on Thursday said that the verdict of an Egyptian military court against five Palestinian fishermen is a “serious” development, demanding the Egyptian authorities reconsider the verdict.

Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi have called for demonstrations on Friday after security forces raided a pro-Morsi area on the outskirts of Cairo.

Mohamed Ali Beshr, leading Brotherhood figure and former minister of local development, has said that the security authorities at Cairo airport told him he was banned from travel when he was heading for Dubai on Thursday morning.

A delegation from the Salafist Nour party met on Wednesday with the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayeb.

Younis Makhyoun, head of the Salafist Nour Party, has said that his party would only withdraw from the constituent assembly, which is entrusted with drafting amendments to Egypt’s suspended constitution, if articles addressing “Sharia and the Islamist identity of the state” are jeopardized.

Security forces on Tuesday arrested Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Gehad Haddad in an apartment in Nasr City. He was accompanied by Hossam Abu Bakr, the former Qalyubiyah governor, and Mahmoud Abu Zeid, a member of the Guidance Office.

Salah Sultan, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, offered his apologies to the Egyptian people for making political judgements that were not met with acceptance from part of the Egyptian people.

The North Cairo Criminal Court upheld on Tuesday a decision by the Prosecutor General to freeze assets of prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders and other Islamist politicians.

Turkish news agency Anadolu has said that according to a source close to deposed President Mohamed Morsy's family, Morsy recently called a member of his family and said that he is hanging on until the last breath and that he is following all that is taking place in the country.

In an abrupt change from its earlier radical position, the ultra-conservative Salafist Nour Party announced it would welcome the Sunni Islamic institution of Al-Azhar having the final say on whether "Islamic identity articles" are included in Egypt's post-30 June constitution or not.

Egypt's only Islamist party in the constitution-drafting body withdrew on Monday from an assembly session, as a dispute escalated over Islamic-related articles in the suspended 2012 constitution that is currently being revised.

Bassam al-Zarqa, the Nour Party representative in the Constitutional Committee of 50, withdrew from the committee’s meeting on Monday discussing the basic components of the Constitution and left the Shura Council building. He did not take any calls from the press.

The conservative Islamist Al-Nour Party has faced a turbulent 48 hours in the Constituent Assembly, the group tasked with amending the 2012 Egyptian constitution.

The North Cairo Criminal Court has upheld requests filed by the General Prosecution demanding freezing the assets of a number of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and several of their allies.

The Interior Ministry is examining the possibility of transferring the trials of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, who are detained pending investigations in Tora prison, to the Police Institute in Tora, a senior security source from the ministry said.

In an abrupt change from its earlier radical position, the ultra-conservative Salafist Nour Party announced it would welcome the Sunni Islamic institution of Al-Azhar having the final say on whether "Islamic identity articles" are included in Egypt's post-30 June constitution or not.

Authorities have extended the detention of Muslim Brotherhood leader Sobhi Saleh, along with 87 other members of the Islamist group.

Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II requested an amendment to the constitution's third article – which deals with "Christian and Jewish Egyptians" – in a meeting with constitution committee head Amr Moussa late on Wednesday, state news agency MENA reported.

Egyptian security forces reportedly arrested around 20 Muslim Brotherhood members on Sunday for allegedly causing disruption at both Al-Shohadaa and Saint Therese Metro stations in Cairo.

Former Shura Council and Muslim Brotherhood member Sobhi Saleh was detained for 15 more days with charges of inciting violence and killings in the Sidi Gaber area in Alexandria on 6 June 2013, Sidi Gaber court decided on Sunday, according to state-owned Al-Ahram.

The Egyptian army’s security operations in Sinai, which are conducted in coordination with the interior ministry, will not end until all the terrorist hideouts in the peninsula are cleared, the army’s spokesman said in a press conference on Sunday.