Khaberni - Sheikh Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb said on Monday that the Palestinian issue "has reached a dangerous level of injustice that does not accept neutrality," pointing to the absence of a genuine international will to adopt a two-state solution.
This came during the reception of the Sheikh of Al-Azhar to the Ambassador of Italy in Egypt, Agostino Palese, at the headquarters of Al-Azhar in Cairo, according to a statement from "Al-Azhar Al-Sharif" institution.
Sheikh Al-Azhar emphasized that "the Palestinian issue is undisputed, and there are not two opinions about it, because it has reached a level of oppression, aggression, and deviation from all values – civilizational, religious, humanitarian, and moral – to a dangerous extent that does not accept neutrality, especially with the spilling of blood and killing of children."
He clarified that it has reached a point that leaves no choice for anyone but to be against these crimes or to be complicit and conspiring with these human tragedies, he stated.
He continued, "We have lost many martyrs in this unjust and oppressive Israeli aggression, which cannot be described as a war, but as a genocide carried out by an army equipped with the deadliest weapons against an unarmed people."
Sheikh Al-Azhar pointed out that the two-state solution has been proposed for more than a quarter of a century "without the presence of a major international will to achieve it."
He questioned, "What prevents the implementation of this solution for a long time? And how many times have major world politics adopted it, only to turn out to be just maneuvers and not a real attempt to reach a just solution to the Palestinian issue?"
Between July 28 and 30 last year in New York, the "Two-State Solution Conference" was held, chaired by Saudi Arabia and France, with high-level participation, and the presence of Palestine and absence of the United States, to support the international recognition path of the Palestinian state.
Until November last year, 159 countries out of 193 member states of the United Nations recognized the state of Palestine, according to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry.
During the genocide war that began on October 8, 2023, supported by Washington and lasted two years, Israel killed about 71,000 Palestinian martyrs and left more than 171,000 wounded, and caused massive destruction affecting 90% of the civilian infrastructure with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about 70 billion dollars.
