Israeli-Hamas crisis: Shari’ah Court faults US govt, calls for help for Palestinian victims

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The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria, SCSN, has condemned the United States, US, government over its most recent singular act on the ongoing Israeli-Gaza crisis.

SCSN in a recent statement released by it’s President, Sheikh AbdurRasheed Hadiyyatullah at a press conference which held in Abuja said that the US has only repeated what “it has always done vetoing the United Nations Resolution calling for humanitarian pauses in Gaza war that would facilitate passage of aid to Gaza.”

According to Hadiyyatullah, Muslim organisations in the country are significantly concerned over the crisis in the Middle East calling on the Federal Government to review its relations with the Zionist State of Israel.

SCSN said until Israel respects International Law and the rights of Palestinians, the Nigerian government should review it’s relations with the middle east country as it condemned the bombardment on Gaza by Israel.

According to the SCSN, Nigerian humanitarian organisations and mosques should mobilise assistance to the distressed people of Palestine.

Hadiyyatullah also noted that the international community has failed to address the root cause of the conflict largely because the US has consistently offered unconditional support to the zionist occupiers of Palestine.

He said, “The United Nations, which could not stop the establishment of the Zionist State of Israel in Palestine, however, guaranteed the right of Palestinians to self-determination and their existence as human beings. It has consistently passed resolutions that have been violated by the Zionist State of Israel.

“The UN and the international community to stop this hypocrisy, apply international law equally on everybody and pursue the realization of the two states solution in Palestine diligently, so as to bring to an end this callousness, bloodshed and suffering in that part of the world.

“The Federal Government of Nigeria to emulate the government and opposition party of South Africa who condemned the actions of the Zionist State of Israel. It should immediately assume its African leadership position in Africa as it was during the Murtala administration. It should be in the forefront in the struggle for the liberation of the oppressed people of Palestine and in places such as Myanmar, Kashmir, China and India.”

He stated further, “The Federal Government of Nigeria should urgently review its relations with the Zionist State of Israel until it respects International Law and the rights of Palestinians.

“The Federal Government of Nigeria on behalf of the teeming Muslims and Christians and people of conscience in Nigeria, should as a matter of urgency, provide relief materials to the besieged Palestinians who are in dire need of food, clothing, medicine and other essentials.

“Nigerian humanitarian organizations and mosques are hereby called upon to mobilise assistance to the distressed people of Palestine. The council calls on all Muslims and people of other faiths to offer special prayers invoking Allah, The Most High, to come to the aid of the Palestinians and all oppressed people of the world.”

The SCSN said the ongoing crisis in Palestine is a genocide because apart from its criminality and lack of humanity, it also clearly showed the failure of global institutions established after the Second World War to protect human beings against any form of tyranny.

Hadiyyatullah said it was an irony that the Zionists who claim to be the only victims of Nazi inhumanity have become the most inhuman political activists of the twenty-first century.