Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry sharply criticized Hamas on Saturday, saying that "the organization is outside the Palestinian consensus, which recognizes Israel and wants to reach negotiations with it, because [Hamas] is not ready to give up its support for violence."
Shoukry made these comments at a press conference held at the Munich Security Conference. He also said that "we must give an account of how Hamas gained power in the Gaza Strip, and why it received financial support to increase the division between it and the other peacekeeping Palestinian factions — whether these are the Palestinian Authority, the PLO or the Palestinian public itself."
There's some nuance to Shoukry's somewhat ambiguous accusation in the second paragraph, at least as reported. Some Arab states have accused Netanyahu of subtly strengthening Hamas politically by marginalizing the Palestinian Authority (and others) so as to keep the conflict in Gaza as stark as possible. That's a bit into tinfoil-hat territory; Netanyahu wasn't PM when Gazans elected Hamas to power in 2006 or when Hamas seized total control of Gaza in 2007. Netanyahu had left office in 1999 before the post-Wye River intifada launched in the West Bank by Yasser Arafat, and didn't return as PM until 2009. Hamas had entrenched itself as the sole power in Gaza by that time, both politically and literally, as Israel found out not long afterward.
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