Morsi ouster in Egypt crushes Hamas dreams

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: The ouster by the army of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi has crushed the dreams of Gaza’s Hamas rulers, who will now have to build ties with the new Egyptian authorities, analysts say.

Hamas, which is affiliated to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood from which Morsi hails, has lost a valuable ally in the deposed Egyptian president after feting his election to office in June 2012, they say.