An Egyptian man has been fired from his role as the voice of the Arabic version of Donald Duck after he called for the destruction of Israel in a tweet.

Wael Mansour, a radio personality and a voice artist from Cairo, tweeted last August: “I truly wish #Israel is demolished, I hate Zionism, I have so much hate inside me with every single child they murder or land they seize!” The message was re-tweeted more than 950 times.

After Walt Disney made the decision to drop Mr Mansour from his role, he posted a message on Twitter saying that he was “proud” of the punishment.