Al-Azhar: Proposals to displace the Palestinian people are not applicable

Follow-up - INA

Al-Azhar Al-Sharif expressed, today, Wednesday, its categorical rejection of the plans to forcibly displace the Palestinians from their land in the Gaza Strip, stressing that no one has the right to force the Palestinian people and force them to accept proposals that are not applicable.

Al-Azhar called in a statement - followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) - to "support the Egyptian and Arab position in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, provided that the Palestinian people remain on their land, and to exert maximum pressure to implement the agreement to stop the aggression on Gaza."

He added, "World officials must be wise in issuing statements that affect homelands," stressing that "no one has the right to force the Palestinian people and force them to accept proposals that are not applicable, and the whole world must respect the right of the Palestinians to live on their land and establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital."

Al-Azhar called on - according to the statement - "the leaders of Arabs and Muslims, the honorable and wise men of the world, the guardians of justice, and all the peoples of the earth to reject the displacement plans that aim to obliterate the Palestinian cause and erase it forever by forcing the Palestinians to leave their homeland and abandon the land they have lived in for thousands of years, without taking into account the sanctity of the homeland and the motherhood of the earth."

He stressed that "the international community's abandonment of supporting the oppressed and subjugated will push the entire world - from east to west - towards instability, and will turn into a real jungle in which the strong eat the rights of the weak and the oppressed."

He called on religious institutions around the world to "direct the voice of religion to defend the oppressed in Palestine," warning that "excluding this global voice and deliberately silencing it is a responsibility before God - the Almighty - and God will hold us accountable for it, and that the first message of religions is to support and protect the weak; all religions reject the expulsion of Palestinians from their land and forcing them to leave it to others, and we are in a world that is supposed to be governed by international laws and norms."

Al-Azhar stressed that "what is happening today on the land of Palestine is a precedent that takes us back to prehistoric times."