An Egyptian court on Saturday designated Palestinian movement Hamas as a "terrorist" group, a judicial source has said.In a separate case earlier in the day, a court sentenced the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's top leader Mohamed Badie to life in prison while other members received the death penalty.Saturday's verdict over Hamas comes even though the case was rejected by a different circuit of the Urgent Matters Court for "lack of jurisdiction."Lawyer Samir Sabri had filed a lawsuit calling for labeling Hamas a "terrorist" movement, claiming the group had "carried out terrorist attacks in Egypt through tunnels linking the Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip.In March 2014, the same court outlawed Hamas' activities in Egypt and confiscated its offices.The court had said that the ban would be temporary until another court-which is trying ousted President Mohamed Morsi for alleged "collaboration" with Hamas to carry out "hostile" acts in Egypt-delivers its final verdict.Last month, a court declared the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, a terrorist organization.A number of Hamas members have been among the defendants in two trials that Morsi-a Muslim Brotherhood leader-currently faces for alleged espionage and jailbreak."The Egyptian court's decision to list the Hamas movement as a terror organisation is shocking and is dangerous, and it targets the Palestinian people and its factions of resistance," Hamas said in a statement after the ruling."It will have no influence on the Hamas movement," Hamas said.A spokesman for the Egyptian government declined to say what actions the government would take to enforce the ruling."When a final judgment is issued, we will discuss this," Hossam al-Qawish said.In the other case, Badie, the top leader of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, was among 14 who were sentenced to life, alongside deputy leader Khairat El-Shater and leading figure Mohamed El-Beltagy.Four lower-level members were sentenced to death for inciting violence that led to the killing of protesters demonstrating outside a Brotherhood office days before Mursi's ouster.Two of those sentenced to death and three sentenced to life were tried in absentia.The death sentences are subject to appeal and many of the defendants are already serving lengthy sentences on other charges.Badie has already been sentenced to multiple life terms, and was one of hundreds given the death sentence in a mass trial that drew international criticism of Egypt's judicial system.President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief toppled Mursi, describes the Brotherhood as a major security threat.The movement says it is committed to peaceful activism.