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.

In the latest developments of the brutal, barbaric, and criminal Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, tragedies continue on a daily basis at an unprecedented scale across the globe.

The Israeli enemy persists in carrying out a campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The weekly toll runs into hundreds of martyrs and thousands of wounded, as the Israeli enemy deploys every means of extermination and killing—through air strikes, artillery bombardment, live fire, and the deliberate starvation of the population.

With sheer brutality and criminal intent, the Israeli enemy targets civilians—defenceless women and children, young and old—clearly and systematically seeking to annihilate as many Palestinians as possible. Its daily crimes, in all their details reported by the media, reflect the great tragedy and the immense injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people and, at the same time, reveal its savagery, its beliefs, its culture, and its dark ideology that produces such policies, actions, and crimes.

The Israeli enemy acts from a cultural and ideological background steeped in darkness and falsehood, even to the worst extent imaginable. It turns a human being into a savage criminal, trampling every value, every moral, and every divine teaching, utterly devoid of mercy. His heart becomes harder than stone, as Allah described them in the Holy Quran, {'Even then your hearts became hardened like a rock or even harder'}[Al-Baqarah 2:74]. This is the reality of the Israeli enemy, clearly manifested in its criminal practices against the Palestinian people.

It is clear to the entire world that these crimes reflect blatant tyranny, corruption on the earth, destruction of life and livelihood, excessive brutality, bloodshed, and the squandering of innocent lives. At the forefront of those targeted by the Israeli enemy—made the main target of its aggression—are civilians: defenceless women and children, targeted with sheer savagery. This reveals its complete bankruptcy of all human feelings, morals, and values. It even tramples on all of these and violates all that is recognised as binding by all nations of the world—whether customs, moral or humanitarian standards, or divine teachings. In its criminality and savagery, the Israeli enemy acts as a lawless force, showing utter disregard for all values, standards, laws, and the teachings of Allah, the Almighty.

For this reason, what the Israeli enemy is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond—though most of its crimes are centred in Gaza, especially during these months of escalation—should not be seen as a simple conflict between two sides, like other disputes between nations or factions over some rights or political reasons. Rather, what the Israeli enemy is committing is an open assault on humanity, on life itself, and on all values. It is an assault that entrenches a savage, criminal path—one utterly alien to the rest of humanity—which seeks to legitimise the wholesale violation of human life and all its foundations.

For the Arab and Islamic world—which is the primary target of the Zionist project, before the rest of the nations—accepting this reality is a catastrophe. It represents gross negligence, a grave abandonment of both human and religious responsibility, and a major disaster for the entire Ummah. To accept what the Israeli enemy is doing, or to turn a blind eye to it—whether through complicity, indifference, or deliberate neglect—is extremely dangerous. As we have said, the Israeli enemy seeks to entrench acceptance and acquiescence to its ways, its plans, its practices, and its project. This project is built upon the complete violation of life, dignity, property, homelands, possessions—indeed, everything, even the most sacred, even the very identity of peoples, and first and foremost, the Islamic identity.

It is the height of folly and indeed constitutes a grave danger to this Ummah when Arabs treat the actions of the Israeli enemy as if they were merely a series of criminal incidents devoid of any dark ideological or cultural background, unconnected to deliberate schemes, and not reflective of the particular mentality and disposition upon which the enemy acts. The consequences of such an approach are exceedingly dire for the Ummah.

Within this Israeli conduct—which stands in stark contrast to the very norms of human societies that recognise rules, values, and obligations conferring sanctity and worth to human life—the Israeli enemy, since the first night of its aggression against the Gaza Strip, has placed hospitals at the top of its targets for bombing, destruction, and annihilation in the Gaza Strip. This is because it is an enemy of humanity, an enemy of life itself; it openly seeks destruction of every foundation of life. Al-Ahli Hospital, known as Al-Mamdani Hospital, was among the foremost targets struck by the Israeli enemy in a savage and atrocious manner, in which it has massacred—and continues to massacre—hundreds of Palestinians. Consider what it has done to Al-Shifa Medical Complex, to the Indonesian Hospital, and to others: It made them targets for bombardment and ground incursions and rendered the doctors and medical staff targets for killing, wounding, abduction, and assault. It even made the very health infrastructure a principal object of its operations, raids, and attacks. It also carried out incursions into hospitals and committed the most heinous crimes, including cold-blooded mass killings. Indeed, it killed patients, nurses, and medical staff with live ammunition. Even patients and infants in incubators were targeted. 

What the Israeli enemy carried out against Nasser Medical Complex this week falls within this same pattern: its criminal practices and its deliberate targeting of hospitals as principal objectives of its aggression. In this case, it employed particular tactics to target this medical complex. At the outset came the bombardment, directed against doctors, patients, and hospital staff alike. Then it proceeded to target the ambulance and rescue teams, journalists and media personnel, and others. This marks an exceedingly heinous crime, one of the most atrocious crimes. 

This is an Israeli approach—a Zionist Jewish one—to dealing with people and targeting them. They target all essentials of life and violate all that should be protected. It is universally recognised among all the peoples of the earth—in all societies, nations, and countries—that hospitals are places of safety and that they must be afforded protection. This is indeed grounded in humanitarian considerations, international conventions, and human norms. For those who adhere to Allah's sacred, great, and just teachings, these too carry inviolable sanctity in every respect. Yet the Zionist Jewish approach—which does not only disregard this sanctity, but also makes such facilities a principal target and takes pleasure in committing the most heinous crimes against them. This is clear and evident.

This is why, according to what the Zionist soldiers themselves have reported to Israeli media outlets, the bombardment—executed according to the tactics employed by the Israeli enemy against Nasser Medical Complex—was carried out with high-level authorisation. In other words, it was not merely an individual act, nor the recklessness of a few criminal soldiers; rather, it was part of a deliberate decision and a planned operation, ordered by their senior criminals, who are in positions of leadership and authority.

Such is who they are; this is their psychology, mentality, and culture. They follow a deviant path, and they differ from all other people in terms of their criminal and aggressive disposition. They take pleasure in killing infants in hospital incubators, in targeting patients, in exterminating wounded individuals, in killing doctors and medical staff, in destroying hospitals, and in making them primary targets. Everywhere else in the world, military objectives are understood to be military camps, sites, bases, or the like of things. Nonetheless, these make hospitals themselves the primary target in their aggression—before anything else, and more than anything else. Therefore, it is a heinous crime, and the tactic employed is criminal and brutal in every sense of the word.

The enemy’s ongoing tactic of death traps, which deliver daily doses of killing, is carried out in partnership with the Americans. Zionism follows a single criminal agenda with unified aims; both its criminal wings operate in unison: {'They are Auliya of each other'}[Al-Ma'idah 5:51], as Allah (Glory be to Him) has said in the Holy Quran. These death traps are a genocidal tactic marked by utter contempt for human life and the violation of every sanctity, disregarding all norms recognised and upheld within human societies: faith in the teachings of Allah, adherence to law, and commitment to humanitarian values and morality. This tactic reflects a deviation even from what human nature itself requires and from basic human sentiments; it signifies a complete bankruptcy of humanity and morality, and sheer savagery marked by a truly fearsome criminality.

In these death traps, the enemies carry out daily acts of killing and extermination against those seeking food—people whom they first oppress and torment through starvation. When some of the Palestinians (driven by the compulsion, pressure, suffering, and torment of hunger) go to obtain food, they are immediately targeted and massacred. The Americans are complicit in this; they admit so by themselves and by soldiers among them who have participated—and continue to participate—in what they call 'security operations'. What is evident in their criminal conduct is that they label all their crimes with humanitarian titles. Even terms such as 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation' or 'Aid Security' are used as cover. Yet in reality, what one sees is crime, aggression, extermination, tyranny, and the most appalling acts of savagery—conduct from which any human being who still respects his own human existence and human worth would recoil.

In fact, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has documented the deaths of 2,096 martyrs and the wounding of a further 15,500 individuals since the beginning of what is called the 'Aid Distribution Mechanism', overseen by America and Israel. This toll is far from ordinary: Such a large number of martyrs and wounded individuals form part of the daily casualties in the Gaza Strip. So each day brings announcements of martyrs and injuries among those simply seeking or waiting for food and humanitarian assistance, as the enemies deliberately target and kill them daily through a variety of means: Some are shot with rifles; some are killed by artillery bombardment; some are struck by missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles; and others are targeted in air strikes and by every means of extermination. This is not to mention extermination through starvation, which constitutes an extremely heinous crime, unprecedented in what they call the 'Middle East', and unparalleled in both its form and scope anywhere in the world.

The Gaza Strip is an integral part of Palestine: a fertile land, suitable for agricultural production that sufficiently meets the food and essential needs of its people. Also, at its border crossings stand thousands of trucks loaded with food supplies and humanitarian aid, yet its people are starved: They are starved after the Israeli enemy destroyed 98% of all agricultural facilities, paralysing the sector entirely and preventing the Palestinians from working on their own to secure their essential sustenance and basic food for their survival. The Israeli enemy, then, blocked the entry of goods—the very goods that people everywhere purchase with their own money to meet their basic needs. After driving them to the brink of economic collapse, it further prevented the entry of humanitarian aid waiting at Gaza's crossings—aid carrying the food and supplies essential to survival. That aid is available, yet it is left to spoil or expire. Then, some of it is burned, some returned, and some ruined, while only a tiny fraction is ever allowed in—sometimes not even 1% of Gaza's fundamental needs. The Israeli enemy even denies the Palestinians access to the sea for fishing. Thus, it starves them deliberately. The whole world has now acknowledged that what is happening is a criminal and savage act and a mass genocide through deliberate starvation, targeting children and women—children who are even denied their baby formula by the Israeli enemy. Therefore, the tragedy is immense: Each day there are victims of hunger, including children (the primary victims and the least able to endure), the elderly, and others. It is a grave and shameful tragedy—one that the whole world acknowledges as a disgrace to humanity.

Due to the savage, criminal, and morally bankrupt nature of the Israeli enemy, neither sermons nor appeals to human compassion nor calls to conscience are effective. None of this can work with the Israeli enemy. The Israelis are such people who no longer retain even the slightest trace of human feeling or conscience. When you speak to them, you speak to those who have become worse than beasts, whose hearts are harder than stone, embodying the pinnacle of savagery, crime, and tyranny. These are people who even take pleasure in exterminating children and possess no shred of mercy or humanity. Nonetheless, where is the responsibility of the world—the West, the East, the international organisations and institutions that claim to play a humanitarian role in protecting human life and the rights of societies?

Anyone who reflects on what is happening and on what the West provides to the Israeli enemy will recognise that Western civilisation—which projects a false image of humanity, claiming to be an advanced civilisation with values and a moral code—is, in fact, the chief supporter of the Israeli enemy despite its savagery, crimes, and tyranny. For this reason, many European states have failed to take practical, effective steps that would genuinely pressure the Israeli enemy to end its crimes.

As for the Americans, they are partners, and their orientation is Zionist. The American official position, across all American institutions, is Zionist, backed by a broad popular base that has embraced Zionist ideology as a belief and actively supports it. This is a grave calamity and a heinous crime, as America employs all its capacities, resources, and global influence to serve that brutal, criminal project and endorse those horrific crimes.

As an example, things have reached the point where the US State Department prohibits the use of any humanitarian language to describe what is happening to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip: Its statements and the remarks of its officials and staff must avoid referring to what is happening as a famine or as an injustice. Any wording that expresses human suffering is excluded from its reports and statements. Some officials have resigned, while others have been dismissed for this reason. After all, the Americans are real partners in the criminal agenda and the planned genocide.

The United Nations has described this starvation as a disgrace to international institutions and to humanity as a whole. Indeed, it is a disgrace, a scandal, and a shame. Leaders and officials across the world who have spoken truthfully about what is happening have all described it as a shame, a disgrace, and a scandal. Even the American president himself has acknowledged it, though he frequently shifts between contradictory statements. Nevertheless, the true disgrace and scandal falls on the international community, its institutions, and above all on the Islamic world—its governments, leaders, elites, and peoples—for they bear a human, moral, and religious responsibility. It is they, above all, who must take practical action to prevent the Israeli enemy from continuing this heinous crime: the crime of the century, the scandal of our age. There must be no further complicity.

The Israeli enemy persists because it feels utterly secure in the collusion of some Arab regimes; in the encouragement, support, and assistance it receives; and in the indifference of others, with only a few rare exceptions.

Among the crimes committed by the Israeli enemy against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is forced displacement. It has persistently pursued that since the escalation of aggression against Gaza twenty-two months ago: The Israeli enemy drives the Palestinians from one area to another, then from that very area to yet another, and so on. This creates immense hardship and heavy burdens and results in a total loss of stability and a complete absence of all the necessities of life. Whenever the people of Gaza manage to settle in one area as displaced persons and begin to put their lives in order, they are forced once again to move elsewhere. Currently, Gaza City faces a grave crisis and unbearable suffering, as the Israeli enemy has declared it a target, seeking to overrun it and forcing its inhabitants into further displacement and exodus. This constitutes a grave crime!

Regarding Al-Quds and the West Bank, the Israeli enemy continues to pursue a deliberate plan aimed at striking the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the city of Al-Quds itself. Last week, we discussed its goal of isolating Al-Quds with large colonial settlement blocs in the West Bank, completely fragmenting it and cutting the city off from its surroundings. The Israeli enemy is indeed actively pursuing its plan to target the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This week, senior Zionist criminals made statements, including the so-called Israeli Minister of Finance, who declared his readiness to fund the construction of the Temple and voiced his support for efforts to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Zionist Jewish enemies are taking every practical step to realise this goal, as it is a fundamental one for them; it stands at the very heart of their Zionist ideology and their scheme. In other words, they believe that this will grant them full control over what they call 'Greater Israel', and ultimately enable them to realise their wider, dangerous, and criminal goal of hegemony over human societies. Thus, the construction of what they call the 'temple' and the demolition of Al-Aqsa lie at the very core of their belief and plan. Therefore, this issue is deeply serious, and when we address it, it is not as a matter of media hype or exaggeration—it is a grave and genuine concern for the Israeli enemy, and the responsibility that falls upon Muslims in defending one of their most sacred sites is immense.

Despite the excavations they carried out beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Zionist Jews have been unable to find any evidence that this site was ever the location of their temple, that it was built there, or that any traces or signs exist to support this claim. Yet they remain determined to pursue their plan. Even these excavations are merely one method of targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque, aimed at paving the way for its demolition and destruction. Consequently, they have continued down this path.

The near-daily incursions, the grave and highly provocative violations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque’s sanctity, the Talmudic rituals they perform in its courtyards, and other actions they carry out daily, are all part of a deliberate effort to tame the Ummah to make it overlook and ignore what they are doing against Al-Aqsa, one of the most sacred sites for Muslims. They are actively working to achieve their goal:

• They have established an institute whose primary purpose is to train priests to administer the temple.
• They have prepared, and continue to prepare, the building materials for the temple, including specific types of stone and other designated materials.
• They have completed the architectural designs.
• Recently, they frequently discuss the demolition of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Everything the Zionists do is part of a plan. In other words, they do not act randomly; their actions and statements always fall within the framework of a practical and deliberate plan.

Zionists differ markedly from the approach taken by Arab governments, whose summits, statements, and declarations—especially on Palestine—are always divorced from practical steps and lack genuine resolve. By contrast, the Zionists act consistently according to concrete plans and real objectives. They are practically working to achieve clearly defined objectives, all of which are aggressive towards our Islamic Ummah, aiming to violate its sanctities, homelands, peoples, wealth, and more.

This is why they have recently been increasingly speaking about the issue of demolition. This has to do with taming the Ummah—which they believe has already succeeded—to make it turn a blind eye to atrocities, disasters, major catastrophes, horrendous crimes, and aggressive schemes targeting it. Seeing this indifference, they feel emboldened to take even greater steps. The greatest factor that encourages them in this regard is Arab negligence and complicity—some complicit, others simply indifferent. This, more than anything else, is what emboldens the Zionist enemies to go ahead with such a monstrous crime.

Regarding the West Bank, under the Palestinian Authority, we have not witnessed a single initiative—even once—to protect its people from any aggression by Israeli soldiers or by gangs of settlers. Personally, I have no knowledge of, nor have I seen, a single stance or initiative taken by the Palestinian Authority to safeguard the Palestinian people in the West Bank—not to protect them from killings or the daily assaults involving kidnappings and beatings, nor to defend their properties or provide any form of protection whatsoever. Yet the statistics show that numerous assaults were actually perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority in support of the Israeli enemy, including:

• targeting of the mujahidin in the West Bank;
• abductions, torture, and killings;
• acts of destruction; and

• numerous forms of targeting carried out under the guise of security coordination with the Israeli enemy.

This is precisely the model that the Israeli enemy wants to replicate throughout the Arab world: Wherever there is an authority, government, or a regime—whatever its label—its primary function should be to serve the Israeli enemy, collaborating in the killing of whomever it wishes, abducting those it wants to abduct, and clearing the path for it to implement its plans. At times, the security forces of the Palestinian Authority even facilitate Israeli incursions into the West Bank, going ahead of Israeli forces to storm neighbourhoods and specific areas in order to secure the ground for their assaults. And, as mentioned, not once have they taken any action to protect any Palestinian, his home, property, farm, or livestock, all of which are targeted by criminal, usurping settler gangs.

The Palestinian Authority is a model that Israel seeks to impose across the Arab world, but only as a temporary measure. That is, it plays a functional role until the Israeli enemy secures full control, at which point, even this limited role is rendered obsolete. It wants to see this model applied in Lebanon and in Syria, whereby the authority’s function is to receive Israeli and American dictates and implement them, without providing any form of protection for its own people. On the contrary, such an authority consistently moves to carry out Israeli and American orders in tandem, never responding to any act of aggression. In fact, it goes so far as to oppose anyone who stands against America and Israel or refuses to accept their violations and control.

Over the past week in the West Bank, there have been a large number of injuries, 105 cases of abduction, and three cases of forced displacement. The Israeli enemy continues to prevent 60,000 Palestinians from the northern West Bank camps from returning to their camps after being forcibly displaced. There have been more than 140 incursions, 23 cases of property destruction, seven home demolitions, and over 155 raids on civilian homes. In addition, nearly eleven new settlement activities have been launched, aimed at seizing yet more land. So it goes, week after week: The numbers mount, with assaults of every kind continuing unabated. There have been nearly fifty-five assaults this week by herds of usurpers, referred to as settlers. This is just the weekly toll; every week sees numerous violations and assaults.

Regarding Lebanon, the criminal Netanyahu has praised the Lebanese government for submitting to his dictates, implicitly acknowledging that what the Lebanese government does and adopts serves the Israeli enemy. This coincides with the criminal Netanyahu himself openly declaring his belief in and pursuit of the Zionist project known as 'Greater Israel', which means complete control over Lebanon and the total violation of its sovereignty.

At the very height of Israeli aggression, with clear and official statements in formal contexts, the Lebanese government—along with certain other Arab regimes—insists on stripping the resistance in Lebanon of its weapons. In fact, some Arab regimes are pressing, together with the Israeli enemy and the Americans, for the resistance to be stripped of its weapons. These are some of those countries the Zionist scheme targets and aims to seize large parts of their territories. This is deeply regrettable. This truly reflects the sheer foolishness and the profound moral and human bankruptcy of those Arab regimes that stand with the enemy against their own peoples, backing an enemy that commits aggression, tyranny, and oppression against their own peoples and targets their countries—truly, this is most unfortunate!

When it comes to the so-called 'Greater Israel', the Israeli enemy sometimes uses this very expression, and at other times uses terms such as 'New Middle East' or 'Changing the Middle East'. Ultimately, it is one and the same agenda: ‘Changing the Middle East’ is simply part of the drive to realise ‘Greater Israel’. However, there are preparatory steps to achieve this goal. When some carry out these preparatory steps, which pave the way for the Israeli enemy to achieve its goals, this constitutes collaboration with that very enemy in executing destructive, aggressive schemes rooted in occupation and domination and intended to take away everything dear to the peoples of this region: stripping them of their freedom, independence, and dignity; occupying their homelands; plundering their resources; destroying their capabilities; and targeting them in every possible way. Thus, this is a state of astonishing foolishness; there is a cognitive problem. Allah must have forsaken them and granted dominance over them as punishment. Some have degenerated to the point that they no longer possess the ability to assess matters rationally. Either they have become devoted proxies of the Israeli enemy—holding positions of authority and directing the affairs of their countries, governments, and institutions to serve the Israeli enemy—or they have reached an unimaginable level of stupidity. Such individuals are utterly unfit to hold any responsibility for their peoples and homelands.

Even the Israeli enemy’s paper currency, printed forty-five years ago, features a map encompassing the entirety of Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon, along with two-thirds of Syria, vast areas of Egypt, western Iraq, eastern Egypt up to the Nile, and the northern Arabian Peninsula, extending all the way to the Medina. This is featured on its currency note printed forty-five years ago. It is a matter deeply rooted in the Israelis' culture, their plans, their statements, and their practical agenda. So how can some people choose to assist them in this—against themselves, their own people, and their own country?! This is a very serious problem.

Yesterday, the criminal Netanyahu made statements about 'changing the Middle East', asserting that they are indeed changing the Middle East. This must be part of their plan for control and takeover—to subjugate, humiliate, and enslave these peoples. Their culture and beliefs—as we have seen in some of their texts during previous speeches—encourage enslaving nations, treating them as slaves. This is their orientation: absolute subjugation, viewing these peoples as enemies.

With regard to Syria, the Israeli enemy operates according to a strategy of unchecked aggression and full control. Accordingly, it continues its incursions reaching the Damascus countryside, very close to the capital itself. This week, it advanced into Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside, an area very close to the capital, and it continues to penetrate other areas within the Damascus countryside. As for Quneitra, Daraa, and Sweida, it considers them under its direct control. It is also reinforcing its domination over Syria’s water resources. Southern Syria is rich in water and rivers, including the Yarmouk River and its tributaries, as well as massive dams and enormous water reservoirs.

I say to the Syrian people, to those in control, and to all the peoples of our region: The day may come when Syrians will have to pay dearly for a sip of water from their own rivers, just as is happening now in Jordan. This is precisely what the Israeli enemy is working towards: to control even the most fundamental resources, especially water, using this as leverage to subjugate and humiliate entire peoples. Subsequently, governments justify their complete submission to the Israeli enemy by claiming that it controls everything, when in reality, it is they who have enabled such domination. Sooner or later, Syrians may find themselves paying exorbitant prices for drinking water—prices that are political as much as financial. Water will become a tool for subjugation, forcing the Syrian people to accept every Israeli dictate. Israel is imposing major realities in Syria—namely, that its own interests should define the limits of everything in Syria, and that significant areas remain open to its dominance. It further plans, with American support, to expand through what it calls the 'David Corridor', extending its reach to the Euphrates River.

American activity in Syria is equally unrestrained—killing, destroying, abducting, spreading wherever they wish, constructing bases in other areas, and mobilising guards and fighters to serve alongside them. Yet American activity in Syria converges with Israeli activity, for they are two sides of the same coin: Zionism, the Zionist orientation, the Zionist project. Thus, the operations of both parties align—the Americans on one side, and the Israelis on the other.

This is what is happening in Syria. Meanwhile, the groups currently ruling Syria adopt the same course as the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: allowing, justifying, and downplaying what is happening, while reassuring the people and collaborating with the Americans and Israelis in imposing new realities, paving the way for their control and unchecked aggression over Syria. This is the reality. 

Regarding the great steadfastness of our fellow mujahidin in the Gaza Strip, they continue their jihadist, heroic operations. The Al-Qassam Brigades conducted around fifteen operations, including ten targeting enemy vehicles, three involving shelling, and two directed against the so-called 'Israeli special forces'.

One very significant operation involved storming a command-and-control centre. It is one of the largest operations carried out by the mujahidin in the Al-Qassam Brigades during the period of aggression and escalation in Gaza, leading to a resounding impact on the enemy. There were also significant operations carried out by the Al-Quds Brigades and other factions.

Regarding the demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people, this week witnessed demonstrations in five Muslim countries, both Arab and non-Arab. Also, demonstrations took place in seventeen other countries across the world, including demonstrations in the United States, which were met with repression and persecution by the American police, which did not even spare women. It seems women's rights are no longer a significant issue there. There is no place in the Zionist American ideology for any human rights when the issue involves Zionism and the Israeli enemy. Women and young people faced harsh assaults with severe beatings. These slogans are used by the West to infiltrate the social fabric of our peoples, aiming to dismantle, scatter, tame, and mislead them. Such slogans are raised by the West, but what lies beneath is an agenda that undermines values and morals and leads to tearing apart the social fabric. This week also witnessed massive demonstrations in Australia this week.

This week also witnessed several humanitarian positions:

• The Dutch Foreign Minister and several colleagues resigned from their government after it refused to take further punitive measures against the Israeli enemy for committing appalling crimes against humanity in Gaza, including acts of genocide through starvation and direct killing. This is an advanced and commendable stance motivated by human conscience. We hope (Allah willing) that a living human conscience will endure in all societies so that genuine humanitarian action continues to be seen. Otherwise, the world risks becoming nothing but slaves to the Zionist Jews.
• In Mexico, protestors took a bold stand by setting fire to the Israeli embassy in protest against the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
• Brazil refused to accept a new Israeli ambassador. Its position—along with those of Colombia and Venezuela— surpasses that of most Arab regimes. One might hope that some Arab regimes would rise to the standards of these distant nations, which still retain a living conscience. This is especially expected of Arab regimes, given their religious, humanitarian, and security bonds with the Palestinian people. This has to do with the national security and major interests of this Ummah. The Palestinians are part of this Ummah, so you, before anyone else, should take action; it is your own cause, your own people, a part of you and your Ummah. Yet, this is not what we see.

America opposes and pressures Venezuela because it insists on independence and refuses to submit to American dominance. America’s hostile and aggressive approach towards Venezuela has never been more evident. Although Venezuela is a sovereign nation with an elected president, yet America has offered a bounty for capturing the Venezuelan elected president. It is the Venezuelan people who have chosen this president, believing in him and supporting him; however, America has no regard for democracy, people’s choices, or self-determination. These slogans are used selectively, presented to our peoples out of context and for the benefit of American and Israeli interests. But in cases like Venezuela, they are never actually applied. Anyway, such principled stances remain important from a humanitarian perspective.

As for operations carried out by Yemen—the land of faith and jihad—in support of the Palestinian people and their mujahidin in the Battle of the Promised Conquest and Holy Jihad, this week witnessed further operations against the Israeli enemy with hypersonic missiles and drones targeting Yaffa and Asqalan in occupied Palestine. To our great pleasure, the missile forces announced a breakthrough that alarmed the Zionist enemy—the development of cluster warheads for the Palestine-2 missile, enabling the missile to split into several warheads. This is a significant achievement, which deeply unsettled the Zionists: Sirens sounded in more than two hundred locations, millions rushed to shelters, and air traffic at Lod Airport was repeatedly suspended after missile launches.

The Israeli assault on our country is a failure. Its strikes on a public oil station and power plants are a failure. Nevertheless, these attacks serve as a wake-up call for anyone still unaware of the true nature of the Israeli enemy. By targeting public services and civilian infrastructure, it is, in fact, targeting the public. When it strikes a civilian facility serving the entire population, it sends a clear message to all Yemenis that it is targeting all of us, making no distinction between those who take to Al-Sabeen Square and speak out and those who stay at home and choose to remain silent. Truly, the Israeli enemy is the enemy of everyone in this Ummah, a threat to all. It targets everyone and everything that belongs to all. This is its criminal nature, and it is by this that we must recognise it.

The position of our country—both the state and the public—continues on a path towards stronger, more decisive action, ever-increasing military capabilities, and steadfast support for the Palestinian people with determination and resolve.

Public activities are varied and abundant, foremost among them the intensive preparations for the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday. Our people have turned this anniversary into a significant occasion with an educational, cultural, and awareness-raising role, and a rallying point for mobilisation, drawing deep lessons from the life of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH&F).

Two key aspects distinguish how our people commemorate this occasion:

• First, they commemorate this occasion and draw lessons from the Prophet’s life while taking practical action and fostering their identity of faith and acting on it. It is therefore about following the example of the Prophet (PBUH&F) as Allah instructs, {'Indeed in the messenger of Allah you have an excellent example for whoever has hope in Allah and the Last Day, and remembers Allah often'}[Al-Ahzab 33:21]. This approach is grounded in real-life response to divine guidance, following the Prophet's example and drawing lessons from his life, which is an important matter.
• Second, they rely on the Holy Quran as the primary source for understanding the Prophet’s life and character. The Holy Quran presents the Prophet's life, with all its various aspects including jihad, as lessons that guide and inspire all generations, not merely historical narrative confined to a specific time and place.

Such meaningful commemoration bears tangible fruit, making this occasion a profound source for drawing great lessons from the Prophet’s life. It strengthens people’s awareness, guides them, purifies their souls, and forges a stronger bond with the Messenger of Allah (PBUH&F) and the Holy Quran, both in seeking guidance and following his example.

One of the main aims of the enemies of this Ummah is to prevent any deep connection to the Messenger of Allah (PBUH&F)—one that yields guidance, emulation, commitment to following his example—and likewise to cut it off from the Holy Quran. The war they wage on the symbolic status of the Messenger (PBUH&F) and the Holy Quran, and their attempts to detach the Ummah from having a strong bond with them—one that ensures following, seeking guidance through them, and holding them in reverence—are all part of a wider effort to subjugate this Ummah. They aim to separate it from the most vital sources and channels of guidance that connect it to Allah (Glory be to Him), His light, His teachings, and His care.

This is the context behind the repeated crimes of burning the Holy Quran—such as the recent case in the United States involving an American Zionist woman who publicly burned the Quran. These actions are intended to declare hostility toward this Ummah and anything it holds dear—its religion, its divine message, its Quran, its sanctities.

O people of the Islamic Ummah, when Americans, Israelis, or any of their allies and followers burn copies of the Holy Quran under official protection and film it for the media, know that this is not simply a reflection of their disbelief in the Quran, Islam, or the Messenger (PBUH&F). Rather, it is part of a broader position; it is an expression of a hostile act that forms part of a comprehensive plan to destroy this Ummah: to target its identity and beliefs, to occupy its lands, and to plunder its resources. It also aims to separate it from the foundations of its honour, its strength, and its identity. They aim to reduce it to an ummah stripped of identity, of anything that holds it together, strengthens it, or makes it resilient. They want it to be an ummah with no sound beliefs, no intellectual or cultural roots, and no solid, unifying identity. This allows them to turn it into a fragmented ummah, with nothing to cling to or protect it from loss, and therefore work to exterminate it by every possible means, including the spread of diseases and other methods, until it is completely eradicated. This is the true nature of their hostile agenda.

This American crime should be met with condemnation and outrage; it should awaken greater awareness and drive us ever closer to the Quran and the Messenger.

The Zionist soft war against Muslims—targeting their principles, foundations, beliefs, and sacred symbols like the Quran, the Prophet, and Islamic sanctities—is a dangerous campaign that targets this Ummah. Its objective is to enslave, humiliate, and subjugate. And truly, when one sees the deeply shameful silence of this two-billion-strong Muslim Ummah in the face of what is happening in Palestine—the crimes of the Israeli enemy against the Palestinian people, and the unparalleled injustice they endure—it is a situation of deep disgrace and humiliation. What lies behind this condition? Why is this Ummah so shackled—despite possessing armies of millions, over twenty million Arab soldiers, thousands of warplanes, tens of thousands of tanks, vast resources, immense wealth, tremendous capabilities, and hundreds of millions of people? What has bound an ummah of over two billion Muslims? It is shackled by cultural, psychological, and intellectual chains—through a soft war of misguidance, moral decay, taming, and submission. A war designed to strip people of their humanity, of their ethical and moral core—until, while human in outward appearance, they are inwardly reduced to tamed creatures like sheep and poultry. So where are you heading, O Islamic Ummah? We must not persist in this condition. Rather, you should follow the example of our Yemeni people and benefit, like them, from this blessed occasion: the anniversary of the Prophet’s birth.

All these preparatory events offer lessons drawn from the life of the Prophet (PBUH&F), as he is the sole focus of these events. They remind people of their responsibilities and shed light on his jihad and efforts, offering guidance to this Ummah. This Ummah’s current position no longer rises to the level of some non-Muslim nations, as we noted regarding the positions taken by ministers in the Netherlands and other positions by other countries, including Colombia, Venezuela, and South Africa.

The Arab condition today is in urgent need of reinforcing religious responsibility. When we witness this bankruptcy on the human level, the death of human conscience, it becomes clear that there is a necessity to reinforce a sense of religious responsibility, especially in the Arab reality. This is indeed an important aspect, but where is it directed? Even this very aspect has, for many, been directed to serve the Israeli enemy. For example, consider the takfiri ideology, rooted in malice and hostility—who is the target of this ideology? It targets the people of our Ummah, while the Israeli enemy remains unchallenged. If all that were directed against the Israeli enemy, what would the outcome be? The issue is not confined to this example. Across our Ummah, there are numerous movements, factions, and regimes engaged in hostile mobilisation and antagonistic pursuits, devoting their curricula, media, cultural and intellectual activities, funding, and efforts to such ends—but all misguided, in the wrong direction. This subject entails many details, but we shall leave it—Allah willing—for the occasion of the Prophet’s Birthday.

As for university and student activities, they are massive, widespread, and remarkable. Likewise, last Friday witnessed 1431 marches and public gatherings—there was a tremendous and honourable turnout, one that brings pride before Allah (Glory be to Him) and before His Messenger (PBUH&F).

In the blessed season of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&F), the Seal of Allah’s messengers, I call upon our dear people—the Yemen of faith, the Yemen of the Ansar—to take to the streets in a massive, million-strong turnout tomorrow, Friday, Allah willing, in the capital Sana’a and across the various governorates, districts, and public squares. Let this be part of your jihad for the sake of Allah (Glory be to Him); a stand for Islam, the Quran, and the Messenger; and a show of solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people.

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.

The most important aspect of the weekly turnout is that it represents a great popular position, embodying striving for the sake of Allah and support for the oppressed Palestinian people, at a time when they are suffering the utmost oppression and the harshest persecution; therefore, participating in these demonstrations is extremely important.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.

 

#Yemen #Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi 25-09-03