Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh: Donations to Gaza Are Not “Humanitarian Aid” but “Financial Jihad”

It’s everything we have said, all along, for years. And for years we were smeared, defamed, libeled – even by our own who denied reality. October 7th was reality.

Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh: We Should Hold on to the Moment of the Victory of October 7 and Build Upon It; Time Is on Our Side; Donations to Gaza Are Not “Humanitarian Aid” but “Financial Jihad”

Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh: We Should Hold on to the Moment of the Victory of October 7 and Build Upon It; Time Is on Our Side; Donations to Gaza Are Not “Humanitarian Aid” but “Financial Jihad” #Qatar #Hamas #Palestinians #Jihad pic.twitter.com/kZ9MluYhZb

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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh spoke at a conference of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in Doha, Qatar, which was aired on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) on January 9, 2024, about the role of Islamic scholars worldwide in the wake of October 7. He said: “We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it,” and he added: “Time is on our side.” Haniyeh said that Islamic scholars should advocate for the Palestinians in their respective countries and that donations to Gaza were not humanitarian aid, but “financial Jihad.” He stated that “the time has come for the Jihad of the swords.”

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Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh: “The [Islamic] nation has an important role. The scholars of our nation have a pivotal role, on two fronts: The first front is supporting the resistance. Brothers and sisters, the whole world is pouring weapons on the occupation. The whole world is not afraid to do so. There are air bridges from multiple capital cities which reach the occupation, as well as aircraft, and so on and so forth. This has become an individual obligatory [Islamic] duty, which we must perform.

“Like the scholars have mentioned, there are fatwas to this effect, and there are motivating statements. There is verbal Jihad, which is Jihad by the tongue, but indeed, the time has come for Jihad of the swords. This is the battle for Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and not the battle of the Palestinian people, or Gaza, or the people in Gaza.

“The people of Gaza constitute our frontline trench for defense, as well as for offense. They are not there only to defend, but also to attack. What was October 7 if not a frontline trench for an offensive by our nation? We must not let this moment slip away. The time has come. Oh, sons of our Islamic nation, oh, free people of the world, there are very few historic moments like this. Do not let this moment slip away. Our nation and our Islamic scholars have very few historic moments like this. Do not let this moment slip away, because if it does, we do not know how many decades will pass before such a moment returns.

“Time is on our side. At the beginning of this aggression, the Americans were waving a big stick in the face of the world, and even in the Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities in some European countries—some of their prominent Palestinian or Arab figures were summoned and were told not to raise the Palestinian flag or do anything. But the language of the same countries has now changed. Why has it changed? Because of the [Palestinian] steadfastness. Were it not for this steadfastness, the conscience of the world would have been crushed. Brothers, we should build on this steadfastness. We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it.

“The Islamic scholars can establish groups and delegations on multiple levels. These delegations would meet the officials of the countries in which they live—government officials, political parties, civil society, institutions—and fulfill their duty in their own countries. They can even lead the masses [in protests]. That’s for one. Secondly, [we should] form special delegations that will meet with the heads of state in the Arab, Muslim, and even Western countries. They should visit countries and talk about Palestine, Jerusalem, Gaza, and the need to stop the aggression against the Gaza Strip.

“The second issue is the call to donate money. Dear brothers and sisters, let us call this ‘financial Jihad.’ The Islamic nation does not make ‘donations.’

“This is not just a humanitarian issue, despite its immense importance and Gaza’s need for any aid it can get. This is financial Jihad. We should revive this principle of Islamic jurisprudence in our Islamic nation—the notion of waging Jihad with one’s life and one’s money.”

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Sebastian Tombs

4 months ago

The unprovoked attack on October 7th was NOT a “victory”! It was a cowardly slaughter of the innocents and no amount of protestations and speeches to the contrary will ever make it anything else. When something as horrible as the October 7th attack is committed it demands a terrible revenge, and that is exactly what the violent Islamic scum in Gaza are undergoing right now and quite rightly so. Hopefully Gaza will be reduced to fragments the size of jigsaw puzzle pieces!
If you can’t take the punishment don’t do the crime!

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garry pollack

4 months ago

So where is he saying this from?—his comfortable home in Qatar…

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Slysammy

4 months ago

When is Mossad going to take care of business here ? It’s long overdue

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Stephen Honig

4 months ago

I wish a slow painful death to Ismail. Anyone who follows Satan is my enemy!

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Ronald Nuxon

4 months ago

Only in the extremely perverted mind could an assault on an innocent victim, resulting in a justified retaliation which renders the assailant prostrate, be considered a victory. In the case of the anti-Israel phalanx, their best weapons are lies.

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Walter Sieruk

4 months ago

That horrendous dangerous and deadly Hamas will centrally take any supplies and money given to it for humanitarian aid and deliberately misuse it to fund its murderous jihadists in their Islamic war against the Jewish people and the State of Israel for the cause of Islam.

For that demonic and murderous jihad entity, Hamas has no limits, at all, to its horrendously horrific heinous vile evils that it so maliciously commits.

Furthermore, it needs to be made clear that Hamas is a violent and deadly religious organization. It’s foundation is Islam which has Quran as its ’holy book” that instructs Muslims to engage in the violence and killing of “disbelievers” for the cause of Islam, as seen in Surah 2:191. 4: 89. 5:33. 9:123. For example, Surah 47:4 reads, “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”

The terrible reality is that using rockets, machine guns and bombs will make a greater “slaughter among them than a sword can.

The jihadists of Hamas are followers of Quran based Islam and not a “warped’ type of Islam.

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Patti

4 months ago

There is not one innocent person in Gaza not ONE. I believe the returning hostages, who ALL say the same thing. Israel needs to go full scorched earth in Gaza and nuke Iran simultaneously

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