Hamas leader says donations to Gaza are not humanitarian aid but ‘financial Jihad’

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the Islamic nation does not make 'donations' but executes 'financial Jihad.' (photo: Memri)[Missing Credit]

Haniyeh also said that the people of Gaza constitute “our frontline trench for defence, as well as for offense.

“They are not there only to defend, but also to attack. What was October 7 if not a frontline trench for an offensive by our nation? We must not let this moment slip away. The time has come.”

He encouraged Islamic scholars to “hold onto the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it.”

In addition to “financial Jihad,” Haniyeh added that the “the time has come for Jihad of the swords. This is the battle for Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and not the battle of the Palestinian people, or Gaza, or the people in Gaza.”

Haniyeh called on Islamic scholars to support the resistance: "Brothers and sisters, the whole world is pouring weapons on the occupation. The whole world is not afraid to do so. There are air bridges from multiple capital cities which reach the occupation, as well as aircraft, and so on and so forth.

“This has become an individual obligatory [Islamic] duty, which we must perform.”