The International Union of Muslim Scholars stated that confronting the ongoing Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza with weapons and military equipment is a duty for every capable Muslim in the Islamic world.
In a fatwa issued on Friday, according to the Palestinian Information Center, the Union affirmed that it is an individual obligation (fard ayn) for Muslims, both people and governments, to intervene militarily in Gaza to repel the aggression against its people and provide the resistance with military equipment, military expertise, and intelligence information.
The fatwa stated that the individual obligation to fight the Israeli occupation is first for the people of Palestine, then for neighboring countries (Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon), and then for all Arab and Islamic countries.
The fatwa emphasized that immediate military, economic, and political action by Islamic governments today, after the martyrdom of more than 50,000 people in Gaza, is an unavoidable duty to stop this genocide and comprehensive destruction, in accordance with their mandate.
It added that it is forbidden to supply the criminal Israeli enemy, regardless of the type of supply, whether by selling weapons, facilitating their transport through ports or international waterways such as the Suez Canal, Bab al-Mandab, and the Strait of Hormuz, or by any land, sea, or air means.
The fatwa emphasized the necessity of imposing an air, land, and sea blockade on the occupier in support of the people of Gaza, who are being mercilessly and collectively exterminated before the eyes and ears of the world.
