"Brothers and sisters, the whole world is pouring weapons on the occupation," Haniyeh told a conference in Qatar. "The whole world is not afraid to do so."
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh told the International Union of Muslim Scholars Conference in Qatar on January 9 that donations to Gaza were not "humanitarian aid" but a form of "financial jihad," according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
"Jihad" is defined by Oxford Languages as "a struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam" and or "the spiritual struggle within oneself against sin." Terror attacks are often considered to be acts of jihad.
Muslims use "jihad" to describe an internal struggle to live out the Muslim faith, the actions taken to build a Muslim society, and to describe a "holy war" to defend Islam, with force if necessary, according to the BBC.
"The [Islamic] nation has an important role. The scholars of our nation have a pivotal role, on two fronts: The first front is supporting the resistance. Brothers and sisters, the whole world is pouring weapons on the occupation. The whole world is not afraid to do so. There are air bridges from multiple capital cities which reach the occupation, as well as aircraft, and so on and so forth. This has become an individual obligatory [Islamic] duty, which we must perform," Haniyeh told the conference.
"Like the scholars have mentioned, there are fatwas to this effect, and there are motivating statements. There is verbal Jihad, which is Jihad by the tongue, but indeed, the time has come for Jihad of the swords. This is the battle for Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and not the battle of the Palestinian people, or Gaza, or the people in Gaza.
"The people of Gaza constitute our frontline trench for defense, as well as for offense. They are not there only to defend, but also to attack. What was October 7 if not a frontline trench for an offensive by our nation? We must not let this moment slip away. The time has come. Oh, sons of our Islamic nation, oh, free people of the world, there are very few historic moments like this. Do not let this moment slip away. Our nation and our Islamic scholars have very few historic moments like this. Do not let this moment slip away, because if it does, we do not know how many decades will pass before such a moment returns.
"Time is on our side. At the beginning of this aggression, the Americans were waving a big stick in the face of the world, and even in the Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities in some European countries—some of their prominent Palestinian or Arab figures were summoned and were told not to raise the Palestinian flag or do anything. But the language of the same countries has now changed. Why has it changed? Because of the [Palestinian] steadfastness. Were it not for this steadfastness, the conscience of the world would have been crushed. Brothers, we should build on this steadfastness. We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it.
