Press Release
International Campaign, “The Righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" is the Liberator of Al Aqsa and the Protector of its Women” Concludes with a Call from the Honourable Women of Al Aqsa

Over the past 2 months, the Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir has been running an intensive global campaign entitled, “The Righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" is the Liberator of Al Aqsa and the Protector of its Women” to bring international attention to the daily humiliation, oppression and slaughter suffered by the honourable Muslim women, children and youth of Palestine.

It was organised in response to the criminal Jewish state’s continuous violation of the sanctity of Al Aqsa Mosque through repeated raids and violence against its Muslim worshippers, as well as its cold-blooded murder and mass arbitrary detentions of those brave Palestinian Muslim women and youth who rose up to defend it. Since October of this year, over 110 Palestinian Muslims have been killed by the ruthless Jewish state; the majority have been children and youth, and included amongst those murdered are women and school girls. The youngest victim was an 8 month old baby who died from inhaling tear gas fired by Jewish forces and the oldest was a 72 year old defenceless grandmother executed in cold-blood by occupying soldiers. Alongside this, the Jewish state has detained over 2000 Muslims across the West Bank, including around 350 children.

The campaign also sought to highlight the criminal impotence and treacherous refusal of the cowardly regimes of the Muslim world to move their armies in defence of Al Aqsa and its honourable women and children, watching as mere spectators while the Muslim children of Palestine are gunned down by terrorist Jewish forces and bleed to death in the streets of this Blessed Land. Additionally, the campaign stressed the utter futility of reliance on international agreements and organisations such as the UN to protect the blood of the Muslims of Palestine and the sanctity of the sacred sites of Islam, considering the customary green light they have afforded this blood-thirsty regime to execute with impunity its murderous campaign of terror against innocent Muslims as well as repeatedly flout their own laws and conventions ever since its inception. International agreements, such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child for example, have proven to be null and void when it comes to protecting the lives of Palestinian children who face torture, imprisonment and assassination on an industrial scale at the hands of this terrorist Jewish entity. Over the last 15 years, 8000 Palestinian children have been arrested and prosecuted by the Jewish detention system, mostly for stone-throwing, with ¾ of them experiencing physical violence during arrest, transfer and interrogation. So as delegates from various countries along with the UN met at an ‘International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem’ in Jakarta, Indonesia this December, we expect nothing from this gathering other than feigned emotions of concern, empty rhetoric and false promises that serve to simply prolong the suffering of the Muslims of Palestine and strengthen the hand of their oppressors.

Finally, the campaign emphasized that the defence of Al Aqsa is a great Islamic duty upon the neck of the whole Muslim Ummah and not just the Muslims of Palestine. It therefore sent out a strong call to the Ummah, the Muslim scholars and the Muslim armies to act in every capacity they have to liberate the land of Palestine once and for all from the ruthless grip of this cancerous Jewish regime by uprooting every inch of its brutal occupation and establishing in its place the glorious Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah that will bring security and dignity to its honourable women and children. The campaign included an intensive social media campaign that was supported internationally, as well as activities organised in various countries, including many gatherings hosted by the women of Hizb ut Tahrir in Palestine who also delivered a call from Al Aqsa to the Muslim scholars and Muslim armies to mobilise without delay to their defence.

The speeches from Al Aqsa and all the campaign material can be accessed at this link: http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/en/index.php/en/dawah-news/palestine/item/9029

«‏إِنَّمَا الْإِمَامُ ‏‏جُنَّةٌ ‏ ‏يُقَاتَلُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَيُتَّقَى بِهِ»

“Indeed, the Imam (Khaleefah) is a shield, from behind whom you fight and by whom you are protected.”

Dr. Nazreen Nawaz
Director of the Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir