Press Release
Abandoning Gaza is a Stain on Your Foreheads, O Soldiers of Kinanah and more importantly, a Question from Allah on the Day of Judgment
(Translated)

Every day, a child in Gaza dies of hunger, or an elderly man takes his last breath without medicine, or a woman closes her eyes for the final time in unbearable pain from thirst or starvation. Every hour, the sky sheds a tear, the stones cry out, and the earth curses those who have forsaken them. This is Gaza... Gaza, which has been besieged not only by borders and cannons, but by a fence of betrayal woven by the leaders of armies, rulers of treachery, and the silence of their Ummah.

What is happening in Gaza today is not merely a humanitarian tragedy, but a fully-fledged crime, committed before the eyes and ears of a world that claims to be civilized, and by armies that the Ummah has funded with its wealth and fed from its hunger so they may be its shield and sword only for them to stand motionless, as if what is happening in Gaza does not concern them, or as if the people of Gaza are not of their own Ummah!

O armies of the Ummah: is it not time for your blood to boil in your veins?! You who wear your ranks and medals proudly on your chests remember that this world, with all its positions, salaries, and ranks, will vanish in a moment: the moment of death that cannot be postponed, the moment you stand before Allah Almighty, barefoot and naked, a Day when neither wealth nor status will benefit you, and neither your ranks nor medals will help, nor will man-made laws or constitutions intercede for you.

Rather, you will be asked about Gaza, and about its people who were slaughtered, starved, and tortured while you were capable of helping them, but you did not!

That day will come, and every soldier in the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and Pakistan will be asked: Why did you abandon your brothers and sisters in Gaza? Why did you let their children die of hunger? Why did you allow their elders to perish from thirst? Did you not possess weapons? Did you not know the way? Did you have no faith left in your heart?

What is happening in Gaza is the real test, the test of the armies, the test of belief, the test of manhood, and the test of faith. There is no holier moment than when a soldier raises his weapon in support of his brothers and sisters, and no greater moment than when the barrier of humiliation and blind obedience to tyrants is broken. That moment is the one that writes glory and is recorded in the book of the eternals, not the moments when salutes are given to the enemies of the Ummah in military protocols!

O scholars, preachers, thinkers, and sincere youth: Do not think you are not responsible. Silence is a crime, and being silent about the abandonment of Gaza is complicity in the crime. Write, preach, denounce, connect the Ummah to its cause, and connect the armies to their true role. Remind the Ummah that its sons are being slaughtered while it remains silent. Remind the armies that they still have a chance to be saved, a last chance to cast off humiliation, break the chains, and march toward jihad.

O Soldiers of the Ummah in general, and Soldiers of Kinanah in particular: Your duty is to declare a full-scale war against the usurping entity until the complete liberation of Palestine. And we are certain this is what every sincere person in the Kinanah army longs for, yet what prevents its realization is the traitorous regime, which has turned the army into a guard for the occupying entity and an executor of its objectives. Your duty is to uproot this treacherous regime from its roots, along with all its tools and agents, and hand over the rule of the country to a conscious political leadership that carries the Islamic project and is capable of implementing it immediately. Among you is Hizb ut Tahrir a sincere, conscious political leadership from within the Ummah, aware of its issues, carrying its concerns, and striving with you to earn the pleasure of Allah Almighty by implementing His law and carrying it to the world under the Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly-Guided Caliphate) on the method of Prophethood.

[وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ وَالْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاءِ وَالْوِلْدَانِ الَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا أَخْرِجْنَا مِنْ هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ الظَّالِمِ أَهْلُهَا وَاجْعَل لَّنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيّاً وَاجْعَل لَّنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ نَصِيراً]

“And what is [the matter] with you that you fight not in the cause of Allah and [for] the oppressed among men, women, and children who say, "Our Lord, take us out of this city of oppressive people and appoint for us from Yourself a protector and appoint for us from Yourself a helper?"” [An-Nisa:75]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Egypt