Al-Azhar Al-Sharif mourned His Eminence Sheikh Youssef Salama, the preacher of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the former Palestinian Minister of Endowments, who spent his life serving the message of Islam and calling for it, and teaching its sciences at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, after his martyrdom in a cowardly terrorist raid on his home in Al-Maghazi camp in the Gaza Strip. .
Al-Azhar strongly condemns this treacherous terrorist attack by the aircraft of the occupying Zionist enemy on the Sheikh’s house. It also condemns all the genocidal operations that target our steadfast people in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the crimes of the Zionist entity, its cowardly massacres, and its blind terrorism are all miserable attempts that will not undermine the determination, patience, strength and clinging of the Palestinian people. His land and his defense of it, its sanctities, and the sanctities of the nation.
Al-Azhar offers its sincere condolences to the family of Sheikh Youssef Salama and to all the sons of our Palestinian people and the peoples of the Arab and Islamic nation, asking God Almighty to accept the late deceased and the rest of the martyrs of Palestine among the martyrs and the righteous, and to grant them the highest paradise in Paradise, and to hasten the cessation of this bloody aggression, and to stop it. The oppression of the Zionists on the innocent Palestinians, and to bring His peace and mercy to the land of Palestine and its people.