IUMS Urges Al-Azhar’s Efforts to Facilitate Aid Delivery to Gaza via Rafah
In a message on X (formerly known as Twitter), Sheikh Ali al-Qaradaghi hailed the stances of imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb in support of the people of the Gaza Strip but said condemning the Israeli atrocities is not enough.
Al-Qaradaghi said that the Al-Azhar chief holds a special position in Egypt and that if he insists enough on sending humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza via the Rafah Border Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, his demand will be fulfilled.
“Please take us to the Rafah Border Crossing. We will not return until we can enter Gaza to join the resistant people of Gaza and take aid convoys to Gaza,” he said.
The IUMS secretary general added that it is not religiously permissible to remain silent in the face of the ongoing Israeli genocide and massacre of thousands of women and children in the Palestinian coastal enclave.
“Gaza is burning and its people are being murdered with lethal weapons,” he deplored.
In the face of such genocide, expressing condemnation is not sufficient but everyone must strive (to end it) as much as he can, al-Qaradaghi went on to say.
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More than 16,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli regime in Gaza since it launched its deadly attacks on the coastal enclave in October 7.
Nearly two months into Israel’s bloody onslaught, the regime is wreaking havoc across every corner of the territory, leaving a trail of death and destruction also cutting off one of the most densely-populated places in the world from basic supplies such as water, electricity, medicines, and fuel leaving millions of Palestinians at risk of starvation.
The Rafah border crossing is the only lifeline for Gaza’s 2.3 million people, who have been deprived of food, water, medicine and fuel due to the Israeli blockade, but Egypt has so far refused to allow enough humanitarian aid to pass through to border crossing to reach the people in Gaza.
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