The sister of the 'extremist' Egyptian dissident who Sir Keir Starmer welcomed to Britain praised the 'imagination' of Hamas militants after the 7 October attacks.

Mona Seif, who headed a long-running campaign for her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah's release, suggested the 2023 violence against Israel was 'understandable'.

She has also been revealed to have compared 'Palestinian resistance' with 'Ukrainian resistance' on the day of the terrorist atrocity.

Ms Seif celebrated the arrival of her brother in the UK on Boxing Day, which was also welcomed by the PM following years of Mr Abd El-Fattah's detention in Egypt.

But past social media posts subsequently surfaced in which Mr Abd El-Fattah, a dual British national, appeared to have called for violence against Zionists and the police.

Mr Abd El-Fattah this week apologised 'unequivocally' for several historic tweets and claimed some of the posts had been 'completely twisted out of their meaning'.

The PM has been fighting off calls to deport Mr Abd El-Fattah and strip him of his of his British citizenship.

Senior Tory MP Robert Jenrick has now branded both Mr Abd El-Fattah and Ms Seif as 'extremists' over the past social media posts.

Mona Seif, who headed a long-running campaign for her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah's release, is pictured alongside Labour's David Lammy in 2022

Mr Abd El-Fattah's arrival in the UK on Boxing Day was welcomed by the PM following years of his detention in Egypt

It is understood Sir Keir Starmer was not aware of Mr Abd El-Fattah's own 'extremist' social media posts when he said he was 'delighted' he had returned to the UK

Mr Jenrick also highlighted how Ms Seif had been 'feted by the likes of David Lammy' after the senior Labour MP, now Deputy PM, campaigned alongside her in 2022.

'When Starmer welcomed the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the BBC described his sister, Mona, as a 'human rights defender',' he said.

'She's been feted by the likes of David Lammy. It turns out, like her brother, Mona has extremist views.'

On the morning of 7 October 2023, the day when Hamas launched a series of attacks on Israel, Ms Seif posted pictures of militants flying by paraglider to her X account.

'Something out of a sci fi movie,' she wrote.

'I guess it takes a special kind of imagination to find new ways of resisting an extremely advanced occupation army whose war crimes are constantly justified and endorsed by some of the most powerful governments!'