Al-Azhar says Palestinian cause has reached a level of injustice that allows no neutrality

Al-Azhar, the leading Islamic scholarly body and the largest religious institution in Egypt, said the Palestinian cause has reached a level of injustice that allows no neutrality, according to remarks by its Grand Imam, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, during a meeting in Cairo on Monday. Speaking while receiving the Italian Ambassador to Egypt, Agostino Palese, at Al-Azhar’s headquarters, Al-Tayeb said the situation in Palestine involves a serious level of injustice and aggression. He said it represents a clear violation of civilisational, religious, human and moral values, amid continued bloodshed, the killing of children, and crimes that amount to genocide. Al-Tayeb said what is happening “cannot be described as a war, but rather as aggression and genocide carried out by an occupying army […]