An Egyptian military court Tuesday sentenced 52 Muslim Brotherhood members to jail terms, including one for life, for attacks on the army in the port city of Suez, an army source said.

The source said the court sentenced one Brotherhood member to life, 48 to jail terms ranging from five to 10 years, and three to 15 years in prison. Twelve defendants were acquitted.

A Cairo court Tuesday ordered the closure of four television channels, including Al-Jazeera Egypt and Ahrar 25, a network belonging to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.

The other two channels to be closed are the Islamist broadcasters Al-Yarmuk and Al-Quds, according to the court order.

Egypt military helicopters killed eight militants and wounded 15 others in intensive air strikes on Tuesday in the Sinai Peninsula, where the army has been battling a semi-insurgency, security sources said.

The strikes near the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip were ongoing, the sources said, adding that the target was militants using the area bordering the Palestinian territory as a hideout.

A bomb hurled from a bridge at a police station in the Egyptian capital on Monday wounded two civilians, a security official told Agence France Presse.

"Unknown assailants lobbed a bomb from a bridge in the direction of a police station in western Cairo," the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that two civilians were wounded in the explosion.

Magdy Tahami looks in disbelief at what remains of Egypt's tiny Mallawi museum.

The ground is littered with glass from the display cabinets, which once housed its precious collection, after a mob attacked and looted the building, during a nationwide crackdown on Islamist protesters.

Egyptian Islamists backing ousted president Mohammed Morsi have called for demonstrations across the country on Tuesday, two months since he was toppled by the military.

The call comes a day after Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour announced a panel to draw up a revised constitution but without the inclusion of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood which rejected to take part.

Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi is to stand trial for "incitement to murder," state television reported on Sunday without giving a date for the trial.

It said he will stand trial in a criminal court along with 14 other suspects in his Muslim Brotherhood movement on charges of "incitement to murder and violence" in December 2012 when seven people were killed in clashes between his supporters and opponents outside the presidential palace.

Suspected Islamists on Sunday shot dead a Coptic Christian man in Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula where several extremist groups operate, security sources told Agence France Presse.

Hani Samir Kamel, 37, was attacked in El-Arish, the regional capital of North Sinai, where security forces have been battling a semi-insurgency since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi's military ouster on July 3.

Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour announced a 50-member panel Sunday to draw up a revised constitution but without the inclusion of ousted president Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood which declined to take part.

A disputed constitution drafted under Morsi was approved in a December 2012 referendum without only a 33-percent turnout.

Egypt on Sunday expelled three foreign journalists working as freelancers for Al-Jazeera television's English channel, the state news agency MENA reported.

Airport security officials, quoted by MENA, said the three men left on a flight to London.