All of Israel is “Islamic Waqf,” issue between Muslims and Jews is about religion not borders – Egyptian cleric
Al-Azhar Cleric Sheikh Yasser Mustafa Younes: “The Jihad of our brothers in Palestine is a mighty Jihad for Almighty Allah, to defend the Islamic holy sites, to remove the injustice from them, and to take back their land and the land of the Muslims… aid to them is a duty for everyone who is able, and supporting them is an obligatory religious duty for all the Muslims worldwide… to the nation that numbers 2 billion Muslims, I say to them: Wake up, the Al-Aqsa Mosque is in danger. They (i.e., Palestinians) must be more alert to this plot whose goal is to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build their alleged [Jewish] Temple on its ruins. Let them take precautions and take their weapons so that this plot will not pass, the issue between us and the Jews is an existential issue, and not an issue of borders. Palestine is the possession of all the Muslims, a waqf for all the Muslims. The entire Muslim nation must defend Palestine, and what makes this Palestinian issue unique, as I said, is that it is an issue of faith and an issue of religion.”
[Official PA TV, Jerusalem in My Heart, Sept. 23, 2023]
Younes is from Al-Azhar – a prominent Muslim academic institution in Cairo, Egypt.