Sana'a - Saba:
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the outcast.
This level of confusion and stupidity, as we’ve said, is extraordinarily dangerous. At the same time, it is a particularly grotesque kind of stupidity—among the most appalling. It reduces a person to the level depicted in a telling line of poetry:
This is what is required, for it is the correct path. This truth is attested to by clear evidence, concrete facts, and tangible realities, as well as by the outcomes and great progress this direction has achieved and the blows it has delivered to the enemy. This is not to mention the enemy’s true objectives, motives, and ambitions.
Unfortunately, most regimes and governments—save for a few—along with their media outlets, officially adopted a different position and even imposed such a position on their own peoples: They criminalise, distort, and vilify the path of jihad and resistance in the cause of Allah. They adopt a position that vilifies the mujahidin in Palestine—whether from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or other factions striving in the cause of Allah, such as the Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, and others. Consequently, the media and political establishments of many Arab and Islamic regimes—unfortunately, even the hollow Palestinian Authority—never cease their smear campaign against the choice of resistance and jihad, smearing the mujahidin and persistently blaming them. Even worse—and to great regret and astonishment—they go so far as to hold them responsible for the actions of the Israeli enemy. Rather than blaming the Israeli enemy, they align with it, echoing its position and serving its interests. This is truly disgraceful!
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the outcast.
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Praise is to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. I believe that there is no god but Allah, the Sovereign and the Manifest Truth, and that Muhammad, our master, is His servant, Messenger, and Last Prophet.
O Allah! Confer Your salat and blessings upon Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad as You conferred Your salat and blessings upon Ibrahim and the Family of Ibrahim. You are Owner of Praise, Owner of Glory! And be pleased with Muhammad's good companions and all Your righteous servants and mujahidin.
Brothers and sisters, peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
This week, amid the ongoing brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli enemy has continued its genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, seeking to further accumulate its record of crimes. It persists in comprehensive destruction, the complete levelling of cities and residential neighbourhoods, the fragmentation of the Strip, and the annihilation of all means of life—laying waste to everything, crops and progeny alike.
The genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is a clear objective of the Israeli enemy. Its criminal conduct, in all its details, reveals this truth on a daily basis. In fact, this is a joint Israeli-American goal. The enemy’s criminal practices and its comprehensive targeting of the population of Gaza—affecting every segment of society, from the young to the old, men and women alike—are evident and led to the extermination of entire families. Indeed, entire families were erased from civil records. This year, the birth rate in Gaza has plummeted by 41% compared to the previous year, and the overall population has declined by 10%. These are deeply alarming outcomes that reveal the magnitude of Israeli crimes and confirm they are aimed at achieving this heinous and aggressive objective.
In its genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli enemy uses deadly weaponry, especially highly destructive and incendiary American bombs. It uses these bombs against displaced civilians even in their camps and fabric tents to kill as many as possible. It seeks to achieve this aim, so it uses these bombs intensively, perhaps even more frequently than bullets. The Americans continuously supply these bombs, delivering thousands of them in each shipment, with new shipments arriving regularly.
The massive US support with these bombs and other military equipment, along with their daily use by the Israeli enemy in relentless bombardment, relies on enormous funding because they are extremely expensive. The financial cost of this type of weaponry and its level of usage is extremely high, requiring vast amounts of money. Considering that these crimes targeting the Palestinian people with such bombs have been carried out on a daily basis for nearly two years, the financial cost must be astronomical. This demands huge financial resources and exorbitant funding. So where does that funding come from?!
It is deeply regrettable that Arab money is among the main sources of funding for these bombs, flowing to the Americans in trillions from various channels across the Arab world: through the plundering of resources, funds offered under the guise of investments, revenues collected by their companies, and more. For Arab wealth to play such a significant role—as a key contributor and one of the most important sources of funding the killing of the Palestinian people—is an extremely dangerous form of participation in the shedding of Palestinian blood and in Israeli crimes.
The aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza could almost be called American rather than Israeli. The Israeli enemy serves as the executor. This reflects the extent of US involvement through its open support. America provides unlimited backing: It participates in planning, provides intelligence, supplies military equipment and weapons, and offers clear political cover. Just yesterday at the UN Security Council, the US reaffirmed its ongoing support for Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, while denying obvious realities, misnaming events, and substituting terms with misleading ones. They even deny the term 'genocide' for what is happening in Palestine, while openly affirming their participation and support for the Israeli enemy in its actions in Gaza and beyond.
The Americans stand with the Israeli enemy through full sponsorship and comprehensive partnership, providing money, military support, and political cover whether in the Security Council, the United Nations, or the wider international sphere. It also exerts pressure on many countries to remain silent or even to offer various forms of support to the Israelis. The US role involves countless types of backing and participation with the Israeli enemy in the killing and extermination of Arab Muslims from this Ummah—the Palestinian people—as well as in the massacres committed in Lebanon and the ongoing aggression against other Arab countries, including Syria. What is the reason behind this American role and participation?
It is certainly not random, nor is it the result of a harsh-tempered US president. One should not view American acts as a temporary reaction to specific events or as acts driven by opportunistic ambitions or tactical considerations that end at the surface.
The American position is marked by aggression, arrogance, tyranny, injustice, and a relentless determination to crush this Ummah, exterminate its people, occupy its lands, strip it of its freedom and independence, and violate its sanctities. The Americans adopt, support, and even participate in everything the Israeli enemy does. This is because both the Americans and the Israelis proceed in their actions, policies, practices, and crimes from a single foundation: their shared belief in the Zionist scheme and their commitment to its principles, ideologies, and vision. The vision it holds towards this Ummah and the goals it has set are hostile to the Ummah: aiming to confiscate its freedom and independence, violate its sanctities, erase its identity, occupy its lands, and more. This is how we ought to view the American position in order to see it for what it truly is and in order to view it with insight and awareness grounded in the Holy Quran and based on clear, undeniable, and established facts.
The aggressive American behaviour—manifested in its full adoption of everything the Israeli enemy does, its provision of all forms of support and involvement, despite the evident and blatant criminality—clearly indicates that this is a genuine, long-standing, and strategic direction pursued over decades, not a mere tactic. In fact, any tactics involved are merely subordinate to the overarching strategy. This behaviour also reflects a direction stemming from a belief openly professed by the Americans: their adherence to the Zionist ideology and their active pursuit of implementing the Zionist agenda.
This is a clear reality. However, most Arab and Islamic regimes and much of the media continue to present the American position in a different light, as if there is still hope that the American position might change. Some even wager on the possibility of a shift in the American position in favour of this Ummah. As a result, they push for seeking refuge in America, throwing themselves into its arms, aligning with it, and submitting to it even further. This is despite the fact that the matter is extremely and undeniably clear: If decades of criminal and aggressive American conduct that adopts everything the Israeli enemy does, its active participation, and its provision of all forms of support—and especially its role throughout nearly two years of Israeli aggression on Gaza—do not make the nature and foundation of the American position clear, then this is truly saddening. When a person remains blind to such facts and fails to see through to the real background of the American position, this reveals a state of severe confusion and an appalling level of stupidity—even a dangerous kind of stupidity.
Stupidity varies in its potential harm. It may be harmless when it concerns minor or ordinary matters. But when it comes to taking such stupidity into weighty matters and serious threats—failing to discern friend from foe when the evidence is crystal clear—it becomes a dangerous, destructive folly. This carries catastrophic and destructive consequences for countless members of the Ummah, jeopardising both their worldly affairs and their destiny in the Hereafter. The misguided policy of urging loyalty to America—surrendering to it and seeking refuge with it—leads to significant imbalances in orientations, morals, and values, all at the expense of Islamic principles; in fact, some even deny Quranic truths affirmed by Allah because of this!This level of confusion and stupidity, as we’ve said, is extraordinarily dangerous. At the same time, it is a particularly grotesque kind of stupidity—among the most appalling. It reduces a person to the level depicted in a telling line of poetry:
'The boy called the donkey, "You fool";
the donkey replied to the boy, "You Arab."'
Such a pitiful form of stupidity is almost laughable—even to the donkey itself.
Regarding the Israeli enemy’s methods of extermination, it employs killing in all its forms: bombs, shells, gunfire, and more. It also weaponises starvation, continuing this tactic in an appallingly brutal manner. The suffering caused by starvation is immense, deeply tragic, and profoundly distressing. In collaboration with the Israeli enemy, the Americans have devised a system of starvation based on death traps and a scheme they misleadingly call the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’—a name entirely disconnected from reality. They label their aggressive operations, which are in fact designed to impose hunger and establish zones for mass killing, as humanitarian efforts! These locations have now become among the most dangerous in the Gaza Strip. Every day, a large number of starving people are martyred—driven by the desperate hunger to approach these locations in search of food, only to be gunned down by the Israeli enemy. In many cases, Americans are directly involved in these crimes. Video footage has documented these killings carried out by Americans—so-called 'security personnel', who, according to their own descriptions, are tasked with protecting what they refer to as aid! Instead, they open fire on starving civilians waiting desperately for food. Media outlets have published such videos. It's a truly horrific and deeply tragic situation.
The staggering numbers of martyrs, wounded, and missing in the Gaza Strip—exceeding 200,000 people over the course of 643 days, during which not a single day passed without Israeli crimes—are not mere statistics. These numbers represent innocent human lives, souls unjustly taken in acts of aggression, in an unprecedented scene of injustice and tragedy. It is, in truth, a deeply sorrowful, heart-wrenching, and profoundly harrowing reality—one that reflects the most extreme forms of oppression imaginable.
- believed Him and trusted His words.
All these scenes and cries from the Palestinian people as they call out to the Islamic world are deeply painful and sorrowful, stirring the soul of every living person and awakening every conscience that is still alive. Yet despite this, many people have reached a point where they fail to react at all. In fact, the poet's words perfectly capture the plight of all those cries from the Gaza Strip:
'You would have been heard if you had called out to someone alive,
but there is no life in those you call upon.'
The condition of many in our Islamic Ummah (at the forefront before other nations) when they behave as if completely deaf, dumb, and blind to what is unfolding in the Gaza Strip—whether through neglect or indifference—is one that signals the death of conscience, the loss of human feeling, and a collapse of values, morals, and faith. It is an utterly unnatural and truly dreadful state.
What the Israeli enemy is perpetrating in the Gaza Strip amounts to a wholesale desecration of human soul and human life as a whole. It is a crime against humanity and the human soul that Allah has firmly prohibited for the Children of Israel: After mentioning the story of the two sons of Adam and the aggressive act committed by one of them—identified in some sources as Qabil, who attacked his brother without the slightest justification—Allah addressed those who resemble this aggressor: {'Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land—it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one—it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And Our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors'}[Al-Ma'idah 5:32]. That is because they resemble those violent aggressors—criminals who show utter disregard for human life and shed innocent blood without hesitation. The sanctity of human life was powerfully stressed to the extent shown in Allah’s words: {'Whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land—it is as if he had slain mankind entirely.'} Let us consider and reflect deeply on the weight of such a crime: the act of killing all humanity—encompassing all its prophets, messengers, the righteous, and its children, women, elders, and youth. Do we not see it as immense, horrific, and vile? Is it not a crime soaked in blood?! It is as though a person had murdered everyone, even his relatives and dearest kin—everyone around him! If a person committed such a crime, how should we view him?
This is how the sanctity of life was made more severe upon the Children of Israel. And yet, it did not restrain them. They rejected all that the messengers and prophets brought, including divine principles, morals, values, and teachings that cleanse the soul, revive compassion, and deepen the innate human values with which humanity was created. They turned their backs on all of that. They are really excessive in every way—violating all bounds, denying all rights, and going to grotesque extremes in their crimes, even in the shedding of blood. Indeed, their excess knows no limit!
In fact, the entire world now sees them for what they are: showing no regard for anything and adhering to no rules or restraints. They have been told that international law forbids such crimes; however, they show no respect for that law—the very law devised and introduced by the West itself as a binding code for all nations. They treat it with outright contempt and disregard the very UN charters that recognised them. This move represents one of the UN's most serious crimes: recognising a criminal oppressor, legitimising its atrocities, and allowing its usurpation of most of Palestine at the time it embraced the Israeli enemy, among other issues. They reject everything said to them—religion, law, values, ethics, norms, rules, regulations, and any moral code agreed upon by human beings, even at the basic level. Indeed, they overstep everything and adhere to nothing.
The Israeli-American lawlessness—because America is a full accomplice in this assault on the Palestinian people—amounts to a flagrant violation of human life and dignity. That is, both the Israelis and Americans have no regard for the sanctity of human life at all; it is not sacred in their eyes. They believe they have the right to kill any person—any child, woman, elderly man, or youth—anywhere in the world. What matters is either desires or interests:We must all view their actions in Palestine, particularly in Gaza as acts of such a grave nature: a violation of life and the human soul in general.
As for other peoples and nations, whether within the Islamic Ummah or beyond, to ignore, accept, or turn a blind eye to what the Israelis and the Americans are doing—while they operate from a mindset that violates every sanctity and shows no respect or value for life or any human beings, regardless of who or where they are—is, in itself, a disregard for human life and, at the same time, a reflection of a profound bankruptcy of human values and compassion.
If a person reaches the point where such horrific crimes committed by the Israeli enemy in the Gaza Strip no longer stir his emotions—despite those heartbreaking tragedies and bloody scenes involving children, women, the elderly, and the young and the immense, unparalleled injustice—then it means that, at his core, he is no longer truly human. Though he still retains the physical form of a human being, he has been stripped of his humanity, for true human value is not solely about the physical body.
Indeed, human value is not solely about the physical body. It is fundamentally connected, alongside this human form, to what Allah has implanted in innate human nature: values, knowledge, wisdom, awareness, the ability to distinguish between good and evil, piety and wickedness. This also includes the feelings that Allah has bestowed upon humans to elevate them, as well as the instincts linked to these concepts and innate nature, which guide and regulate their course, setting humans apart from other beasts.
To turn a blind eye to such events—where the Americans and Israelis kill at will, committing the most horrific crimes, wiping out entire populations, including children, women, the elderly, and the young by the cruelest means of killing; torturing communities with the harshest forms of suffering such as starvation, denial of water, injuries, and withholding of medical care, alongside all others forms of targeting—means that the people are accepting that their reality is turning into one akin to a jungle ruled by predatory beasts that kill by instinct, desire, and lust, acting as they please, devouring others driven by their impulses and cravings. This is an extremely grave situation.
Therefore, whoever yields to and accepts what the Israeli enemy, in partnership with the Americans, is doing to the Palestinian people has, in effect— whether or not he openly declares it or expresses it—accepted this criminal conduct as the dominant reality, imposed first and foremost upon our region and among the peoples of our Ummah, who are the primary targets, ahead of all other nations on the earth.
In addition to starvation, the Israeli enemy is using thirst as a weapon against the Palestinian people, which is a deliberate and systematic crime. It deliberately targets freshwater wells. Indeed, it has attacked a substantial number of wells across the Gaza Strip. According to statistics, the Israeli enemy has destroyed 720 water wells, rendering them out of service and depriving more than 1.25 million Palestinians of access to safe, clean drinking water.
So far, the Israeli enemy has committed 112 massacres against civilians standing in queues to have water. Despite the limited and scarce locations available to obtain drinking water, where many children gather to fetch water for their families, the Israeli enemy targets them at this scale, carrying out such a number of massacres. It turns even the simple act of fetching some drinking water into a life‑threatening gamble: The child who goes to collect water may never reach his family again alive. The Israeli enemy targets them deliberately, with the intention of subjecting the people to thirst.
Furthermore, the Israeli enemy continues to prevent fuel from entering the Gaza Strip, which the Palestinian people depend on for every necessity: providing drinking water, operating wells, and running sewage treatment plants, hospitals, waste collection vehicles, among other needs. In fact, the Israeli enemy persists in employing every means of extermination and method of killing.
The Israeli enemy also continues its dismemberment of the Gaza Strip. This week, it opened a new corridor through Khan Younis, severing the city’s east from its west and attempting to reach the coast. This is only one of many dividing lines that fragment the Strip, separating areas from one another and dividing its people. This is accompanied by ongoing destruction and land levelling. Even contractors have been brought in and paid to complete the demolition of what remains of buildings and homes. The Americans play a role in this effort, as they keep supplying shipment after shipment of bulldozers used to raze what is left of the homes in Gaza, with the aim of achieving total destruction and the complete eradication of all remaining residential buildings.
With regard to Al-Quds, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the West Bank, the Israeli enemy continues its daily violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque through the organised incursions by Jewish groups into the mosque's courtyards and the desecration of its sanctity. Regrettably, such aggressive actions—carried out by the Israeli enemy against one of the most sacred sites in Islam—have become a routine scene for many within the Muslim Ummah, failing to stir a sense of responsibility or evoke protective zeal for their religion and sanctities. This reflects a deeply troubling and dangerous condition.
The Israeli enemy has announced a film festival to be held south of the Old City walls in Al-Quds—an act that represents yet another step in the ongoing efforts to impose a Jewish character on Al-Quds.
In yet another step aimed at the Judaisation of the Ibrahimi Mosque—one of the most significant Islamic landmarks in occupied Palestine—the Israeli enemy has stripped the municipality in Al-Khalil of all authority related to the mosque. According to its own announcement, this move is intended to implement the most extensive changes since 1994. It continues its efforts to Judaise this important Islamic site.
The Israeli enemy also continues its campaign of abductions, destruction, and all forms of criminal activity in the West Bank. Its actions there form a blatant conspiracy aimed at annexing the entire territory. This includes the forced displacement of residents from refugee camps and the transformation of the political and geographical realities concerning these camps. The same can also be said of its continuous efforts to establish new settlement outposts, seizing vast tracts of land for that purpose and fragmenting the West Bank—it seeks to turn Palestinian towns and cities there into isolated, closed-off enclaves that are no longer connected. In fact, it has erected a network of military checkpoints and walls that sever areas there from one another.
The Israeli enemy’s aggressive path is unmistakable—even as the Palestinian Authority, certain Palestinian factions, and some regimes within the region persist in pursuing the path of normalisation and cling to a failed, fruitless political approach. The futility of this approach has been proven beyond doubt. The Israeli enemy has made it absolutely clear that it will not accept the establishment of a Palestinian state—neither in the West Bank nor elsewhere. Its position is unambiguous, and no one can hope to achieve any meaningful outcome through political bargaining or negotiations with it.
The Israeli enemy targeted water wells in occupied Al-Quds through acts of sabotage, despite being the sole source of water supply for dozens of Palestinian villages and communities.
Regarding Palestinian resilience in Gaza, our fellow mujahidin continue to confront the Israeli enemy with unparalleled bravery and high effectiveness, inflicting losses and defeats on the Israeli enemy. They carry out heroic operations and demonstrate remarkable creativity in planning, tactics, and execution with a truly advanced performance that keeps pace with the developments and the requirements of the battle. They continue to target the enemy’s vehicles, kill its soldiers even while they are inside their tanks and armoured vehicles, and conduct ambushes that frustrate the enemy's soldiers—one of which nearly resulted in the capture of an Israeli soldier.
This week marked the first anniversary of the great mujahid martyr Muhammad Al-Deif, commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades—may Allah have mercy on him. The Martyr Muhammad Al-Deif (May Allah have mercy on him) is a pioneer of the school of jihad in Palestine and an inspiring model of distinguished and successful jihadist performance. His journey, alongside his fellow mujahidin in the Al-Qassam Brigades, in jihad for the sake of Allah—since the very beginning of their movement and the accomplishments they achieved by Allah’s grace—provides an important, inspiring, and beneficial lesson. It showcases the importance of a conscious and faith-driven commitment to jihad and how it elevates one's spirit, resolve, values, patience, and wisdom, thereby increasing his effectiveness, influence, and what Allah enables him to achieve. Benefiting from these inspiring examples is among the most important things our entire Ummah needs, especially the Palestinian people—these figures provide lessons for the entire Ummah.
Another thing to consider is their jihadist journey and the achievements and clear leaps they accomplished in it. Despite starting from scratch and facing significant challenges, their work, their jihad, the outcomes they achieved, and the losses they inflicted on the Israeli enemy were remarkable. They, together with other jihadist factions in occupied Palestine—such as the Al-Quds Brigades and other factions committed to the path of jihad and resistance—became a real obstacle to the Israeli enemy, preventing it from concluding its war in Palestine and moving on to the rest of the region. They formed a strong defensive rampart for the entire Ummah—one that the Israeli enemy could not cross to wage its war on the rest of the Ummah. They played a vital and decisive role in preserving the Palestinian cause, shielding it from being erased, liquidated, or lost to forgetfulness and failed political bargains, which bring no benefit to the Ummah or to the Palestinian people themselves.
The great path they follow and the important achievements they attained—culminating in the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood—clearly demonstrate that the choice of jihad for the sake of Allah is indeed effective. This is because it has clear outcomes that can be proven by evidence and clear figures. They, indeed, have blocked the Israeli enemy from fully taking over Palestine and moving on to target the rest of the Ummah, and from resolving the battle in Palestine and enjoying complete relief. Instead, they forced it to remain stuck in a big battle inside Palestine, unable to achieve all of its goals or move forward to fulfil its Zionist plan. Indeed, when we consider the losses they have inflicted on the Israeli enemy and the progress they have achieved—despite the humble beginnings, the situation they were in, and how this jihadist path pursued by the Al-Qassam Brigades, along with the Al-Quds Brigades and other jihadist factions, has grown and gained momentum—it becomes clear that the choice of jihad for the sake of Allah and the resistance against the Israeli enemy is an effective and successful option. Furthermore, it is a path through which capabilities expand, expertise advances, accomplishments increase, and all these efforts unite to produce truly remarkable outcomes.
Despite the extremely difficult conditions, one can clearly see the effective performance of the fellow mujahidin in the Al-Qassam Brigades, as it stands out as the most prominent faction in Palestine, taking the lead in confronting the Israeli enemy and being the most active in this struggle. The same can be said regarding the effective performance of the Al-Quds Brigades and other factions. This jihadist movement has coalesced and expanded under the harshest circumstances: besiegement, intense confrontation, relentless targeting, and a concerted Israeli effort aimed at preventing the rise of such mujahidin. such resisting formations. Yet, despite such adversity, this movement has grown in influence, strength, and prominence, even as the Israeli enemy exerts all its efforts and employs every method and means to prevent this—indeed, Allah is sovereign over all affairs. These jihadist movements and formations have emerged and grown under extremely harsh conditions, operating with very limited resources. They have become highly effective to the extent that the Israeli enemy has failed to crush this resistance, to eliminate these mujahidin, or to halt their operations despite its brutal and intense war that has been ongoing for twenty-one months with overwhelming capabilities and full, unrestricted support from America—throughout this intense war, the Israeli enemy has unleashed every weapon of destruction and annihilation at its disposal on Gaza.
This clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of the path of jihad and resistance and the great results that Allah (the Almighty) has brought about through the efforts of Muhammad Al-Deif and others among his comrades—those who contributed to the construction of this solid, disciplined, and steel-like structure of jihad, which is built on faith, values, awareness, willpower, determination, patience, and devotion for the sake of Allah (the Almighty) in confronting the enemy. They have inflicted numerous defeats upon the Israeli enemy and caused it significant losses. Today, it is suffering from a crisis in its human resources, which has led to another problem: its internal problem regarding the recruitment of the Haredim—the religious segments and groups, which are steeped in falsehood and misguidance.
Psychologically, the Israeli enemy has suffered heavy losses—an estimated fifty thousand the Israeli enemy's soldiers have been psychologically shattered by the war, with some even developing serious mental disorders. This is a staggering figure that indicates the effectiveness and impact of the jihadist and resistance effort.
The path of jihad and resistance is the right choice. The entire Ummah should rally behind these mujahidin and support them at every level:This is what is required, for it is the correct path. This truth is attested to by clear evidence, concrete facts, and tangible realities, as well as by the outcomes and great progress this direction has achieved and the blows it has delivered to the enemy. This is not to mention the enemy’s true objectives, motives, and ambitions.
Unfortunately, most regimes and governments—save for a few—along with their media outlets, officially adopted a different position and even imposed such a position on their own peoples: They criminalise, distort, and vilify the path of jihad and resistance in the cause of Allah. They adopt a position that vilifies the mujahidin in Palestine—whether from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or other factions striving in the cause of Allah, such as the Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, and others. Consequently, the media and political establishments of many Arab and Islamic regimes—unfortunately, even the hollow Palestinian Authority—never cease their smear campaign against the choice of resistance and jihad, smearing the mujahidin and persistently blaming them. Even worse—and to great regret and astonishment—they go so far as to hold them responsible for the actions of the Israeli enemy. Rather than blaming the Israeli enemy, they align with it, echoing its position and serving its interests. This is truly disgraceful!
In the face of relentless media campaigns aimed at distorting the path of jihad and resistance and demonising the jihad-performing forces within this Ummah—whether movements, groups, systems, or individuals—the Ummah, broadly speaking, needs a sound and firm vision concerning the correct path and direction and those who follow this very path that aligns first with the Holy Quran, the Wise Book of Allah, and that is attested to by realities on the ground and anchored in both Islamic and human principles.
Widespread propaganda campaigns are underway to justify despair and defeat in the face of the Israeli enemy. These campaigns work to discredit the path of jihad and resistance, portraying it as suicidal, ineffective, and fruitless—a failed path that yields no results. They blame this very path for the Ummah’s suffering, and in the process, they absolve the Israeli enemy and promote alternative approaches grounded in their own defeatist mentality. This mentality was fully embodied by the Saudi representative who stood in the Israeli Knesset and delivered a speech steeped in surrender, defeat, and submission to the Israeli enemy. His message was based on the notion that Israel is now militarily superior, that it has defeated every nation in the region, and that there is no option left but to surrender and submit to it. This surrender is being rebranded in the language long used by the Americans and Israelis, even before this stage, since 2005: 'The New Middle East,' or 'Changing the Middle East.' This vision is built on granting the Israeli enemy total control and a green light to do whatever it likes to this region, while all governments, peoples, and entities of this Ummah submit without resistance to whatever it decides or does. This is a profoundly dangerous prospect.
Regarding Lebanon, the Israeli enemy continues its acts of aggression, including a surge in air strikes this week. Meanwhile, the Americans are actively pushing certain Lebanese parties and forces to embrace the Israeli position: to support the disarmament of Lebanon’s resistance and to accept unchecked aggression by the Israeli enemy despite its ceasefire agreement with the Lebanese state and all its unfulfilled obligations under that agreement.
Regarding Syria, the Israeli enemy continues its assaults despite the officially declared path of normalisation pursued by those in power. Just yesterday, it launched air strikes on the Syrian capital, Damascus, marking a clear escalation.
Through its relentless assaults on Syria, the Israeli enemy is seeking to impose new realities:
- This is the condition it aims to impose across the region: that it may kill at will, destroy at will, occupy, abduct, and demolish farmlands and homes without facing any response.
- It has taken advantage of the flawed policies of the armed groups there towards these minorities. These policies have given the Israeli enemy a convenient pretext. In fact, this very enemy stands behind the creation of such sectarian and denominational currents that oppose other groups based on sectarianism, which it then exploits to further fragment the peoples of this Ummah.
- It keeps seizing one area after another, each assigned a specific security designation—this extends even to areas near Damascus.
- —its relations, positions, levels of armament. The goal is to guarantee that the Israeli enemy’s interests, its dominance, and Syria’s submission become what shapes all positions and relations in Syria. This is the same approach the Israeli enemy adopts with all countries in the region.
This is the very definition of unchecked aggression, and it is the very reality that both the Americans and Israelis want the entire Ummah to accept—but why? It is because it serves the Israelis’ goals of domination, occupation, and tyranny and allows them to freely practice oppression, usurpation, and plundering. The Americans and Israelis want this Ummah to accept this condition: to be a subjugated, enslaved, crushed people, so thoroughly violated that even their sacred sites are desecrated, their religious identity erased.
Therefore, those armed groups in control over Syria must first completely change their approach that discriminates on the basis of sect, ideology, and region, removing the pretext Israel is exploiting. This is a very important matter, and it is a responsibility they must fulfil.
At the same time, Syria’s minorities must remain vigilant against Israeli manipulation. Nothing but greed drives the Israeli enemy, for it harbours no goodwill towards anyone—it is an opportunist! It manufactures crises and disputes to exploit them and even pushes for certain positions to be adopted to later benefit from their disastrous outcomes. Such is the nature of the Israeli enemy—it seeks no good for anyone.
In recent months, the Israeli enemy has established more than eight military bases north of Quneitra, in addition to its military project known as 'Sufa 53'—a dirt corridor reinforced with trenches and dirt barriers. This project carves through vast areas and is designed to link together its military bases and posts that have spread across southern Syria.
Regarding the demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people, this week saw protests and rallies in eighteen countries, including several across Europe—most notably in Germany, where authorities responded with brutality and violence against demonstrators.
In a notable act of solidarity with the Palestinian people, workers at the Port of Piraeus refused to unload a container ship carrying military-grade steel destined for the Israeli enemy. According to reports, the cargo was due to be transferred to a Saudi ship for delivery to the Port of Haifa. Another symbolic show of support came with the departure of a new vessel from the Freedom Flotilla, aiming to break the siege on Gaza.
On the Yemeni support front (the land of faith, wisdom, and jihad), a number of operations were carried out this week in support of the Palestinian people and their mujahidin in the Battle of the Promised Conquest and Holy Jihad. These operations involved the launch of eleven hypersonic missiles and drones against Israeli targets in Yaffa, the Negev, and Umm Al-Rashrash in occupied Palestine.
Furthermore, the sinking of two vessels belonging to companies that violated Yemen’s ban on Israeli maritime activity in the Red Sea once again forced the closure of Umm Al-Rashrash port, after attempts to resume operations there. The action served as a clear deterrent and a strong message to all companies breaching the Yemeni ban. Yemen remains firm in targeting any non-compliant ships whenever the Yemeni Armed Forces detect a viable opportunity within the area of operations.
In this context, we extend our heartfelt praise and appreciation to the Grand Mufti of Oman, who commended the Yemeni operations in support of the Palestinian people. He stands as one of the rare, courageous voices among Muslim scholars. Unfortunately, there are only a few voices among Muslim scholars that remind the Ummah of its duty to stand with the Palestinian people and to confront the enemies of Allah, humanity, and this Ummah. The Grand Mufti of Oman is one these few voices, known for his bold positions. Since the onset of Israeli aggression on Gaza, he has been reminding the Ummah of its responsibilities, voicing clear, bold, and unwavering positions in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Regarding public activities, the past week saw a total of 1,229 demonstrations, marches, and gatherings, including a major demonstration yesterday at Sana'a University.
The continued momentum of our dear people—the Yemen of faith, wisdom, and jihad—amid intense pressure, propaganda, economic blockade, and severe hardship, reflects the genuineness of their faith and attests to their drive of faith. Their persistence is tireless and unyielding.
Indeed, when—by Allah’s grace—we engage in this movement, which is jihad in His cause and attests to the free spirit of this people and their dignity, faith, and honour, such a noble and uplifting spirit must never be dulled by fatigue or apathy.
The dreary, disgraceful, and detestable state is that state akin to death, which afflicts many countries in our Ummah today. This state of inaction, indifference, stagnation—akin to death—and detachment from major crises and threats is a dreary, disgraceful, and detestable state that must not be accepted or allowed to continue.
When a people such as ours live with vitality, honour, jihad, dignity, and true freedom, it is a tremendous blessing.
Through this activity, powerful movement, and honourable stance sustained by tireless effort, our dear people have remained unaffected by the forces that have subdued many other nations, regimes, and movements. They stand unfettered by fear.
Many in this Ummah have been overwhelmed by fear of America and Israel, so intensely that it has made them forget to fear Allah and neglect their religious and spiritual responsibilities before Him (Glory be to Him). Some even express their fear openly, laying bare the submission, humiliation, and surrender that come with it.
Anchored in faith, our people believe with certainty that no fear should surpass the fear of Allah. What truly concerns them is falling short in their duties to Him, as this would incur His punishment, which is more severe than any other punishment or torment. Allah (the Almighty) says, {'Do you fear them? But Allah has more right that you should fear Him, if you are [truly] believers'}[At-Tawbah 9:13]. He also says, {'So do not fear them but fear Me if you are believers'}[Ali 'Imran 3:175]. Our people believe in this truth: that it is Allah (the Almighty) Whom we must truly fear, whose punishment we must reckon with above all.
Our people place their trust in Allah and believe that responding to His call can grant them a strong, honourable, and victorious position. They believe that if harm were to come from the enemy, then those enemies, in return, could also be struck—dealt painful and crushing blows. This is grounded in the divine principle: {'And do not weaken in pursuit of the enemy. If you are suffering, they too are suffering'}[An-Nisa 4:104].
They believe that the principal failing of the Ummah lies in the frailty of its positions. These are what have weakened it. However, with trust in Allah, reliance on Him, and seeking refuge in Him, it can assume the upper hand.
Faith teaches us to rely on Allah, to trust Him, and to make sure that He is with us. Certainly, when Allah is with us, we are undoubtedly the stronger party—no matter the might or capabilities of the enemy.
{'Those who were warned, “Your enemies have mobilised their forces against you, so fear them"'}[Ali 'Imran 3:173]. In our time, countless media outlets associated with this Ummah—satellite channels, radio stations, websites, and social media accounts—push this narrative of fearmongering and demoralisation, amplifying fear of America. They constantly talk about American and Israeli capabilities in an alarmist fashion, fostering a sense of hopelessness in this Ummah to stand against such enemies. They call on people to fear: {'So fear them'}—they want everyone to fear America. {'Those who were warned, “Your enemies have mobilised their forces against you, so fear them,” the warning only made them grow stronger in faith and they replied, “Allah [alone] is sufficient [as an aid] for us and [He] is the best Protector"'}[Ali 'Imran 3:173]. The believers responded, {'Allah [alone] is sufficient [as an aid] for us.'} This is the logic of the believers, for they rely on Allah, trust His promise of victory, and depend on Him alone. Their deep faith drives them to be ready to sacrifice everything for His sake, while others lose themselves serving taghut. They believe in Allah’s true promise of victory, to the extent that they see every hardship endured in His path as fruitful —bearing immense reward and a blessed outcome: victory, honour, and dignity in this world, and Allah’s pleasure and Jannah in the Hereafter. So this is the right path.
Our dear people have never been shackled by greed or the lure of so-called interests—a concept that has corrupted many regimes, movements, and individuals. In fact, these false, fleeting interests have become the foundation of their position. Such interests are pursued at the cost of selling out their humanity, freedom, dignity, faith, and very selves. They embrace humiliation, submission, and servitude to America and Israel for false, fleeting interests that are largely illusory—rarely realised as they hope.
In contrast, our people are not blind to the truth, for they see it through the lens of the Quran. They have seen, through the Holy Quran, the truths that manifest in the reality of this enemy—its nature, its aims, and its practices. As a result, they perceive these truths as they truly are and see this enemy for what it truly is. This is why they are not deceived by what is presented by others who seek to justify their deviation rooted in despair and defeatism or, in some cases, the corruption of hearts—a spiritual and moral decay—that drives them to align themselves with the enemy.
Our people have placed their faith in the truths the Holy Quran presented regarding the enemy:
Just look at the policies of most regimes today, and you will see how they are built on appeasing America and Israel, under the illusion that such submission will yield the results they hope for. This illusion stands in complete opposition to the Quranic truth that Allah has firmly established.
This week’s activities included the holding of the rain prayer. It is vital to continue turning to Allah in supplication and repentance so that He may send down rain. In fact, the hardship caused by drought is severe. Turning to Allah in supplication and repentance is a key characteristic of faith. It is essential and important to seek forgiveness, hope in Allah’s grace and mercy, and strive for a comprehensive spiritual approach that shapes one's commitments, actions, and character. Through this, the divine promise is fulfilled—Allah’s promise of goodness, honour, and blessing to His believing servants in all aspects of life: {'Had the people of the towns believed and feared Allah, We would have opened for them blessings from the sky and the earth''}[Al-A'raf 7:96].
I call upon our dear people to take to the streets by the millions, Allah willing, in a massive and honourable demonstration tomorrow:
Let tomorrow’s turnout, Allah willing, be immense and widespread—in the capital, Sana’a, and across all governorates, districts, and public squares.
We ask Allah (Glory be to Him) to grant us success in seeking what pleases Him. O Allah! Have mercy on our virtuous martyrs, heal the wounded among us, set free our captives, and grant us victory. You are the All-Hearer of prayer. We also ask Him to hasten relief and victory for the oppressed Palestinian people and for their dear mujahidin, and to bestow upon us relief and rain; indeed, He is the All-Hearing of prayer.
Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.