CAIRO – 20 July 2025: Security forces have eliminated two men belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood in fire exchange, foiling a plot by the group’s armed wing to target security and economic establishments, a statement by the Ministry of Interior read on Sunday.
The interior ministry said a raid was conducted on the hideout of the two elements in Cairo’s Boulaq Ad Dakrour, who opened fire randomly on the forces, promoting a response from the security personnel.
The ministry said a citizen who happened to be passing by during the raid tragically died of wounds after he had been struck by stray bullets from the terrorists.
An officer was also injured while attempting to rescue the civilian, the statement noted.
How It Started
The ministry issued an urgent statement today, announcing that “information indicated that leaders of the Hasm movement—the armed wing of the fugitive terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group currently based in Turkey—is preparing and planning to revive their activities and carry out hostile operations against security and economic establishments.”
The Muslim Brotherhood was outlawed and designated by Egypt as terrorist after the ousting of the group-affiliated president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. The group has repeatedly claimed that they do not have an armed wing.
Hasm has been also designated as a terrorist group by Egypt as well as the United States and the United Kingdom.
Over the past decade, many top Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been convicted by Egyptian courts of committing violent and terrorist crimes with many members of the group receiving death sentences in charges including murder.
In its statement, the interior ministry said Hasm had produced a video circulating on various social media platforms, showcasing training exercises of its members in a desert area of a neighboring country, with threats to carry out terrorist operations within Egypt.
Hasm smuggled one of their operatives, previously trained in advanced military techniques in a neighboring country, into Egypt through desert routes to execute this plot, the statement added.
The ministry identified the infiltrating individual as Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel Razek, who has received multiple sentences for serious crimes, including a death sentence for targeting a group of security personnel in Al Sharqia Governorate.
Abdel Razek also received life imprisonment sentences (25 years in prison) for being involved in assassinating police officer Maged Abdel Razek and policeman Ali Amin, and attempting to target the presidential plane.
The other element killed in the fire exchange is Ehab Abdel Qader, who was wanted on charges of attempting to target several important figures.
The ministry said the raid was conducted after the approval of the Supreme State Security Prosecution.
‘Hasm Leaders Behind The Plot’
The national security sector has also identified Hasm leaders who are involved in planning hostile attacks on the Egyptian economic and security facilities, including Yehia Moussa, the statement said.
The ministry identifies Moussa as one of the movement’s key founders and a supervisor for its armed and military structure.
Other leaders include Mohamed Rafik Mannaa, Alaa Ali Al-Samahi, Mohamed Abdel Hafiz, and Ali Al-Wanees.
These four people have all received heavy sentences in serious crimes, including targeting prominent figures, and all of them except Mannaa have been convicted of targeting the presidential plane.
Meanwhile, Moussa, Samahi and Wanees, like the killed element, Abdel Razek, were found guilty of assassinating officer Maged Abdel Razek.
The ministry concluded its statement, reaffirming “its commitment to thwarting the plots of the Muslim Brotherhood group and its supporters,” underlining the group’s scheme to “undermine the security and stability of the country.”
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