AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The head of Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party held talks with senior Hamas officials in Doha, Qatar, on the developments in Palestine and the Israeli regime’s brutal attacks on Gaza.
According to a tweet posted by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on social media platform X, party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman met with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and senior leader Khaled Mashal in Doha, Qatar, and discussed with them the ongoing situation in Gaza.
Fazl, accompanied by a delegation including Maulana Rashid Mahmood Soomro and Mufti Abrar Ahmed, reached Qatar on Saturday, JUI-F spokesperson Aslam Ghori said. He added that the delegation held a detailed exchange of views on Palestinian situation with the top Hamas leaders.
"Israel is making a sinister attempt to turn the first Qibla [Al-Aqsa mosque] into a temple by oppressing the Palestine,” Fazl said during the meeting. Haniyeh, on the occasion, stressed the need for the Ummah unity against Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people.
“It was incumbent upon the Muslim Ummah to unite against Israeli oppression. Countries calling for human rights send shiploads of weapons to Tel Aviv. [Therefore], the Ummah must come forward to support the Palestinian brothers, mothers, sisters,” he said.
Similar views were expressed by former Hamas leader Mashal, according to the JUI-F tweet. “The developed [Western] countries have the blood of innocent children and women on their hands,” he said, referring to the mass killings in Gaza.
According to the tweet, Mashal also expressed solidarity with the people of Kashmir, who are facing Indian atrocities for the past seven decades. “The lingering Kashmir and Palestine [issues] have been a slap in the face of those calling themselves as the advocates of human rights,” he said.
Ghori said that during the meetings, Fazl agreed that Israel was trying to change the status quo in Palestine through oppression and injustice by changing the status of Al-Aqsa Mosque. He stressed the need for the Ummah to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Palestinian brothers.
“The Palestinians are not only fighting for their land, but they are waging a battle for the liberation of Al-Aqsa Mosque, fulfilling their duty of the Ummah,” Ghori quoted Fazl as saying.
In a separate tweet on X, Fazl said that he met with Haniyeh and Mashal in Qatar and expressed condolences and solidarity from the Pakistani people, especially the JUI activists with the Palestinian people over the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza.
“Assured them that we are standing by your side in every moral, political and diplomatic field,” Fazl said. “Ismail Haniyeh and Khalid Mashal conveyed their heartfelt gratitude to the people of Pakistan and the workers of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam for their support for the Palestinian people.”
According to Ghori, during the meetings, Fazl offered condolence and prayed for the departed souls of the Palestinian martyrs and an early recovery of the wounded. According to Ghori, the JUI-F chief would meet Qatari leadership and travel to Turkey for talks on providing aid to the Palestinian people.
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