Members of the Lebanese Parliament from the Sunni Muslim bloc held an extraordinary meeting at Dar Al-Fatwa, at the invitation and under the presidency of the Grand Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian. The meeting was dedicated to discussing the massacres committed by the Israeli enemy in Gaza and other Palestinian territories, and the repeated assaults on Lebanese territory, which have reached the level of genocide in Gaza.
After reciting Al-Fatiha for the souls of the martyrs, the attendees expressed their grave concern regarding the following points:
**First:** The affirmation of the national right of the Palestinian brotherly people to their occupied land, including their right to return to this land and to establish their national state with Jerusalem as its capital. They emphasized that the Palestinian cause is an Arab, Islamic, and universal humanitarian cause, and stated that they are not neutral regarding the rights of the Palestinian people or the crimes committed against them.
**Second:** The necessity of adhering to international legitimacy, represented by the decisions of the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly, in principles related to the right of peoples to self-determination, the liberation of their lands, the exercise of their sovereignty and freedoms, and managing their independent national affairs on their land.
**Third:** The condemnation of the policy of collective killing and the indiscriminate bombardment of residential neighborhoods, which is perpetrated by the occupying Zionist forces in Palestine, with clear Western support, which is a reprehensible and unacceptable act condemned by all Arab and Islamic nations and by all peace-loving people. This unlimited support has led to the destruction of homes of innocent people, their schools, hospitals, mosques, and churches, in a process of collective punishment and blind barbaric destruction.
**Fourth:** The attendees affirmed that what the terrorist Israeli enemy is doing in Gaza constitutes unprecedented war crimes, and they demand the lifting of the inhumane blockade on Gaza, and call for supporting the steadfastness of its people in the face of Israeli aggression. They urge the opening of secure humanitarian corridors under the supervision of the United Nations to deliver humanitarian assistance, including water, food, and medical supplies to the people of Gaza, who are facing the harshest forms of starvation accompanied by the most destructive bombardments, on land, sea, and air. They also call upon the international community to hold the Zionist entity accountable and to punish it for its continuous crimes committed in Gaza, warning that the lack of accountability for the criminal encourages further disregard for humanitarian values and paves the way for more crimes against women, children, the elderly, and the innocent in their homes. They reject any forced displacement of the residents of Gaza from their land and history, and any Israeli invasion of Gaza will ignite a volcano of anger not just in Palestine but in all Arab and Islamic countries.
**Fifth:** The Palestinians, particularly the people of Gaza, are not the ones who committed the Holocaust against the Jews during World War II or before it. The Islamic world—from the Maghreb to Turkey—has embraced the oppressed Jews since the fall of Andalusia, even during the rise of Nazism and its brutal crimes against humanity, which the Muslims and Arabs have condemned and denounced.
**Sixth:** The policy of scorched earth and collective punishment practiced by the Israeli enemy with all of its destructive military mechanisms deserves condemnation from the entire international community. It is lamentable and painful that what is happening is the opposite; military, financial, and moral assistance is pouring into the Zionist entity, encouraging and covering up the crimes it commits against the Palestinian people in general, and particularly against Jerusalem and besieged Gaza and its resistance to the Zionist enemy.
**Seventh:** Therefore, the attendees appeal to human communities, especially Islamic and Arab societies, to stand by the Palestinian people and our brothers in devastated Gaza and the besieged West Bank to reclaim their rights and establish their free and independent state.
**Eighth:** The attendees express their appreciation for the steadfastness of the people of Gaza and all Palestinians, and their resilience in the face of the aggression and the brutal occupation. They pray to God to defend them against the plots of the occupiers who retaliate against themselves in the wrong place. Palestine is our cause, and Palestine unites us.
The attendees extended their heartfelt condolences to the families of the martyrs of Palestine and Gaza and to the families of the journalists "who were martyred in Palestine and Lebanon while covering the brutal Israeli aggression in Gaza and southern Lebanon," praying to God for the swift recovery of the wounded.
