Press Release
Isn't it Enough for You to be Weak and Submissive?!
(Translated)

On the 220th day of the Jewish entity’s aggression against the Gaza Strip, the aerial bombardment continued on the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The occupation forces opened heavy fire on shelter centers in the camp before forcing hundreds of Palestinians to leave these centers. It also intensified its air raids on Rafah, which is crowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced men and women, including bombing homes over the heads of their residents without prior warning. In less than 72 hours, it killed 40 residents, including 13 children and 12 women.

The intensification of raids on residential homes coincides with the intensification of the artillery shelling targeting the eastern region of Rafah as part of an operation of intimidation, killing and indiscriminate destruction against civilians, to push them into forced displacement again from the city, which houses at least 1.3 million displaced people and residents.

Tens of thousands were displaced from the city of Rafah, to the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city and west of Khan Yunis, which led to massive overcrowding in this limited area (about 12 thousand dunums), as the displaced people resorted to setting up tents or nylon canopies on the ground, on the sides of the roads, and on the coast, without having the necessities of life, and without the area having adequate infrastructure to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of residents. This affects especially women and children who do not know where to go and what to do regarding the policy of mass killing, inflicting severe physical and psychological harm, widespread destruction of homes, infrastructure and necessities of life, starvation, thirst, deprivation of treatment, and pushing them to move away from their places of residence in conditions that lack the most basic human rights, and then targets and kills them in the place of their displacement.

The air and artillery attacks continue throughout the Gaza Strip on homes and displaced groups. The death toll rose to more than 35,000 martyrs and more than 78,000 injured, most of whom were women and children, and there is still talk of thousands of martyrs’ bodies under the rubble.

This genocide has been taking place for more than seven months under the watchful eyes of the entire world, in light of the immunity provided by America and negligent and subservient European and Arab countries to the Jewish entity, they do not even dare to denounce what is happening. The regime in Egypt is standing by and watching, even helping the occupation gain full control over the Rafah crossing adjacent to its borders!! This crossing is the lifeline for the people of the Gaza Strip, and the only land port for bringing in food and medical aid and evacuating the injured. Consequently, movement through it has completely stopped, as there is no travel or entry of the already scarce aid into the Gaza Strip. We also saw dozens of wounded women and children who could not find treatment, medicine, or therapists.

O the Armies and Officers of the Ummah: We will not tire and will not be bored of calling on you and appealing to you to rid the people of Gaza of their suffering, and to rid the Masra (site of Isra’) of the Messenger of Allah (saw) and all of Palestine from the grip of this brutal occupation. This will not happen while these rulers are crouching on the chest of the Ummah, so revolt against them and remove them from their rusty, rotten seats (of power) filled with the blood, body parts, moans and cries of women and children in Gaza, or have their voices not reached you?! Did you not see with your own eyes the atrocities committed against them?! By Allah, what are you waiting for more?! Were you not shaken by the strength of the belief of the people of Gaza and their confidence in Allah's victory?! Do not the verses of Allah move you, Glory be to Him, who says:

[أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنْ تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ وَلَا يَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلُ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَكَثِيرٌ مِنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ]

“Has the time not come for those who have believed that their hearts should become humbly submissive at the remembrance of Allah and what has come down of the truth? And let them not be like those who were given the Scripture before, and a long period passed over them, so their hearts hardened; and many of them are defiantly disobedient” [Al-Hadid: 16]?!

Enough of you being weak and submissive. So, move to a position that pleases Allah and His Messenger, so that you may attain the good of this world and the Hereafter.

Women’s Section
in the Central Media Office
of Hizb ut Tahrir