Egypt Must Stop Gaza Border Wall
– Hizbullah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday called on Egypt to stop building a steel wall along the Gaza border that could obstruct tunnels which provide a lifeline for the blockaded territory.
"In addition to the siege there has been news about [building] a steel wall … to terminate the thin veins which are giving some life and some hope to Gaza," he said, according to Reuters.
"We call on the government in Egypt and the leadership to stop the wall and flooding the tunnels and to end the siege otherwise it should be condemned by all Arabs and the Muslims," he said.
Nasrallah was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands of Lebanese Shiite Muslim marking the religious ceremony of Ashura.
"This unjust silence over besieging a whole people should not continue regardless of the excuses," Nasrallah also said.
Shortly before the speech thousands of Lebanese, chanting "Death to America, death to Israel," marched Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiya on the occasion of Ashura.
Prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi also slammed the steel wall Egypt is building along its border with the Gaza Strip as an “unjustified crime” and as such banned by Islam.
Sheikh Qaradawi, who is the chairman of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, said that the metal wall Egypt had begun constructing was meant to “pressure the Palestinians in Gaza to surrender to Israel.
“What Egypt is building these days on its border with Gaza is a prohibited act from the Islamic perspective,” he said.
“It aims to close off Gaza and tighten the siege imposed on it people so that they give in to the Israeli demands,” Sheikh Qaradawi said in a statement.
“When the news of this wall was firstly reported, I did not believe it. I thought it was only meant to drive a wedge between Egypt and the Palestinians. But later when it was confirmed, it was a tragic shock for me,” he maintained.
Qaradawi also called on Egyptian government to open its Rafah border crossing point with Gaza, saying that opening the border point was a “religious and legal duty” of Egypt toward the Gazan people.
“Rafah is the only lifeline for the people of Gaza. Egypt should open it rather than suffocating the Palestinians and collaborating with others to kill them”, he added.
The scholar also appealed to both the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to pressure Egypt to stop the construction of the Wall.
“The Wall is one hundred percent against the Palestinians and playing into the hands of the Israelis enemy one hundred percent,” he added.
Source: Agencies
"We call on the government in Egypt and the leadership to stop the wall and flooding the tunnels and to end the siege otherwise it should be condemned by all Arabs and the Muslims," he said.
Nasrallah was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands of Lebanese Shiite Muslim marking the religious ceremony of Ashura.
"This unjust silence over besieging a whole people should not continue regardless of the excuses," Nasrallah also said.
Shortly before the speech thousands of Lebanese, chanting "Death to America, death to Israel," marched Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiya on the occasion of Ashura.
Prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi also slammed the steel wall Egypt is building along its border with the Gaza Strip as an “unjustified crime” and as such banned by Islam.
Sheikh Qaradawi, who is the chairman of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, said that the metal wall Egypt had begun constructing was meant to “pressure the Palestinians in Gaza to surrender to Israel.
“What Egypt is building these days on its border with Gaza is a prohibited act from the Islamic perspective,” he said.
“It aims to close off Gaza and tighten the siege imposed on it people so that they give in to the Israeli demands,” Sheikh Qaradawi said in a statement.
“When the news of this wall was firstly reported, I did not believe it. I thought it was only meant to drive a wedge between Egypt and the Palestinians. But later when it was confirmed, it was a tragic shock for me,” he maintained.
Qaradawi also called on Egyptian government to open its Rafah border crossing point with Gaza, saying that opening the border point was a “religious and legal duty” of Egypt toward the Gazan people.
“Rafah is the only lifeline for the people of Gaza. Egypt should open it rather than suffocating the Palestinians and collaborating with others to kill them”, he added.
The scholar also appealed to both the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to pressure Egypt to stop the construction of the Wall.
“The Wall is one hundred percent against the Palestinians and playing into the hands of the Israelis enemy one hundred percent,” he added.
Source: Agencies
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