[ 03/01/2010 - 07:55 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Arab and Muslim activists launched a campaign to collect million signatures on a statement condemning the steel wall being built by Egypt on its borders with the Gaza Strip.

The statement to be signed reads: “We, the people of Egypt, and the Arab and Muslim world, reject the wall of shame, which is aimed to blockade the Palestinian people and endanger the lives of one and a half million Palestinians.”

“We reject the wall of shame, which serves the security and goals of the Zionist entity and is aimed to pressure Hamas into signing a reconciliation paper intended for surrendering Gaza to Abbas and Oslo advocates,” the statement, which was posted on Amal Al-Ommah website, further says.

In the same context, Shaikh Hamed Al-Beitawi, a Palestinian lawmaker and the head of the association of Palestinian scholars, issued a fatwa prohibiting the building of the steel wall on Gaza borders and considered it treason against Islam and Muslims.

Shaikh Beitawi underlined in his fatwa that Egypt is morally and nationally obliged to stand by Gaza people and help them in their ordeal because they resist the Israeli occupation and defend the dignity of all Arabs and Muslims.

For their part, the joint meeting parties (JMP), the largest gathering of opposition parties in Yemen, stressed Saturday the importance of Egypt’s national security as an integral part of the Arab national security, but they said that the building of the steel wall between Egypt and Gaza at the pretext of security reasons makes the concept of Egypt’s national security superficial.

The JMP called on the Egyptian authorities to reconsider the building of the steel wall and to assume its national responsibility towards the besieged people of Gaza.

Dr. Abdul Wahab Mahmoud, the head of the JMP, told the Palestinian information center (PIC), that Egypt, as an Arab country, must take into account the humanitarian aspect of Gaza and alleviate the suffering of its people instead of building the wall.