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Nov 05, 2018
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Gaza Imam Ahmad Okasha: Jihad in Palestine – the Most Obvious Jihad on the Face of the Earth

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Source: Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza)

Gaza Imam Ahmad Okasha said that the Jihad in Palestine is the most obvious Jihad on the face of the Earth. He quoted a hadith about the Muslims killing the Jews before Judgement Day and said that there could be no doubt about Jihad when Muslim are fighting Jews who have occupied their land. Okasha's statements aired on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas-Gaza) on November 5, 2018.

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Imam Ahmad Okasha: The most obvious Jihad on the face of the Earth is the Jihad in Palestine. There is no doubt or dispute about it. Muslims fighting Jews who occupied their land – there is no dispute here.

 

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[Jerusalem] shall only be liberated in the way decreed for us by Allah: "Judgment Day shall not come until you fight the Jews, and the trees and the rocks will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'"

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