Cairo - Saba:
Al-Azhar in Egypt called on Arab and Muslim leaders and the world's honorable and wise people to reject displacement plans that aim to obliterate the Palestinian cause.
Al-Azhar said in a statement yesterday evening, Wednesday, that it "calls for supporting the Egyptian and Arab position in rebuilding the Gaza Strip, provided that the Palestinian people remain on their land, and exerting maximum pressure to implement the agreement to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza, and for world officials to be wise in issuing statements that affect the homelands."
He stressed 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 "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."
It 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."
Al-Azhar called on "religious institutions around the world to direct the voice of religion to defend the oppressed in Palestine."
It warned 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." He stressed that "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," stressing that "what is happening today on the land of Palestine is a precedent that takes us back to prehistoric times."