Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis claimed responsibility for the attack on al-Farafra checkpoint in New Valley that left 22 army personnel and border guards dead.

The death toll in Gaza rose to 517 on Monday after Israeli forces attacked Al-Aqsa hospital following the bloodiest day for six years in Palestine.

More than 100 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shells fired at the densely populated Gazan neighborhood of Shajaia, according to medical sources in Gaza, raising the Palestinian death toll to over 500 Palestinians since the two-week Israeli military offensive in Gaza

Minya Criminal Court on Monday acquitted Mamdouh Mabrouk, the director of the Muslim Brotherhood’s administrative office in Minya, along with four others in the Minya violence case.

The Israeli army attacked Gaza Strip on Monday morning and witnesses reported seeing white smoke, believed to be caused by phosphorus bombs. Doctors claimed receiving “charred bodies,” Al-Quds news website reported Monday.

The death toll from a brazen attack on a border post in Egypt’s western desert along the border with Libya has risen to 22 troops, including three officers, the military said Sunday.

The United States on Sunday sharpened its criticism of Hamas and urged the militant Palestinian group to accept a cease-fire agreement that would halt nearly two weeks of fighting with Israel.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged Israel to "exercise maximum restraint" and spare the lives of civilians in its campaign in Gaza, where Sunday's Palestinian death toll passed 100.

Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai prevented an aid convoy of activists from reaching the Rafah border crossing with the embattled Palestinian Gaza Strip on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said.

Egypt has no plans to revise its ceasefire proposal to end fighting in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian militant movement Hamas, which has rejected the initiative, Cairo's foreign minister said on Saturday.

Former Prime Minister Hesham Qandil said in his first remarks after his release from prison that Egypt needs justice.

Dekernes Court of Appeals in Daqahliya on Thursday acquitted four members of the Muslim Brotherhood of demonstrating without permit and fined them LE10,000 each.

The committee charged with managing the companies of prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders said it is keeping in mind the rights of workers and suppliers.

A Hamas official denied on Thursday that the Palestinian faction had secured a ceasefire deal with Israel, refuting claims from an Israeli official that they had agreed to halt fire early on Friday.

Egypt's Prosecutor-General Hisham Barakat referred 163 alleged supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to an Alexandria criminal court on Wednesday for the killing of 29 persons in August 2013.

Former prime minister Hisham Qandil was released Tuesday after the prison's authorities sent a letter to the prosecution affirming that he was not facing other charges, reported Al-Ahram Arabic news website.

A few days before he was elected Egypt's president in May, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discreetly visited tribesmen living along the border with Libya. Tribal leaders there say Sisi, former head of the army, urged them to help Egypt confront what could be a security nightmare for the biggest Arab nation: Islamist militants operating just over the frontier in Libya.

The Muslim Brotherhood has called on Arab armies to support Hamas movement in Gaza Strip against Israel which has been raiding the Gaza Strip for a week in response to missiles shot by Hamas.