An Egyptian news outlet has alleged that former Muslim Brotherhood media official Abu Bakr Khallaf maintained covert contacts with Israeli institutions.
Sout al Umma published the allegations on Sunday, saying Khallaf led the Brotherhood’s “electronic committees” in Cairo from around 2010 and later founded an unregistered group called the Electronic Media Syndicate.
It alleged that Khallaf’s network was involved in surveillance activities in 2015, including monitoring judges and photographing bodies at a Cairo morgue.
The report cited two case numbers from that year but did not provide related court rulings.
According to the outlet, Egyptian authorities arrested Khallaf in 2015. After his release about a year later, he allegedly left Egypt through Sudan.
The report further claimed that Khallaf later travelled to Israel and attended a security conference in Herzliya in 2019.
Voice of the Nation also cited an unnamed Palestinian journalist who alleged that Khallaf invited Arab reporters to a conference linked to normalisation with Israel.
The journalist reportedly claimed that Khallaf threatened reporters who refused to attend.
The Egyptian outlet did not publish the documents it cited, including a letter it attributed to an academic at Tel Aviv University.
Neither the university nor the individuals named in the report have publicly responded to the allegations.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt’s government designates as a terrorist organisation, has not issued a statement addressing the claims.
The allegations come amid longstanding tensions between the Brotherhood’s public rhetoric towards Israel and accusations by Egyptian state-aligned media over the conduct of individual members.
