Al-Azhar mourned on Monday the former Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs of Palestine and the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque HE Sheikh Youssef Salama.
It said the late Minister spent his life serving the message of Islam and preaching it and teaching Islamic sciences at Al-Azhar University in Gaza. Sheikh Salama fell a martyr as a result of a cowardly terrorist raid on his home in Al-Maghazi Camp, Gaza.
Al-Azhar firmly condemns this treacherous terrorist aircraft attack by the occupying Zionist enemy on Sheikh Salama’s house.
It also condemns all the genocidal operations that target our steadfast brotherly people in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the crimes of the Zionist entity, the cowardly massacres they commit, and their blind terrorism are all miserable attempts that will not shake the determination, patience, strength or perseverance of the Palestinian people in their defense their lands, their sanctities, and the sanctities of the nation.
Al-Azhar extends sincere condolences to the family of Sheikh Youssef Salama and all our brotherly Palestinian people, and the peoples of the Arab and Islamic nation, asking Allah Almighty to accept the deceased and the rest of the Palestinian martyrs among the martyrs and the righteous in heaven and grant them the highest dwelling in Paradise, to hasten the cessation of this bloody aggression, to bring an end to the Zionists aggression against the innocent Palestinians, and to bring peace and mercy to the land of Palestine and the Palestinian people.