In a sign of worsening ties, Egypt’s envoy to the Palestinian Authority (PA) has accused Hamas of incitement against Egypt.

In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, Yasser Othman, Egyptian ambassador to the Palestinian territories, said Hamas and its government in Gaza were conducting an incitement campaign against Egypt through its media and mosques.

“It is shocking to us the degree to which Hamas is inciting against Egypt; its media and propaganda apparatuses have been fully exploited since the beginning of the January 25 Revolution to attack Egypt, its state and army and to defend the Muslim Brotherhood regime,” Othman told Al-Monitor during a phone interview.

While the ambassador reiterated that Hamas had, since the beginning of the revolution, deployed all its resources to side with the Muslim Brotherhood against the Egyptian people’s wishes, Gaza’s Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was quoted as saying on Aug. 16 that Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood “shared the same educational and intellectual philosophy, but that the latter did not justify interfering in Egyptian affairs.”