“The flood of youth” is a call for new methods of solidarity with Gaza

The launch of the “Flood of Youth” festival as part of the activities of the fourth edition of International Jerusalem Week (social networking sites)

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In a digital gathering via the “Zoom” virtual platform, the “Flood of Youth” festival was launched this evening, Wednesday, as part of the activities of the fourth edition of International Jerusalem Week, with the participation of hundreds of young people from all over the world, with the aim of enhancing awareness and solidarity with Jerusalem and the Palestinian cause.

The festival, organized by the Palestine Scholars Association and civil society organizations working for Palestine, witnessed the participation of prominent speakers and activists from various circles, including academics, artists and public figures, who highlighted the importance of activating the role of youth regarding the current events in the Gaza Strip and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The festival, which coincides with the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October, talked about the most important means and methods that young people around the world possess to create a real impact through which they can change the reality of the Palestinian people in the long term and the residents of Gaza at the present time.

Participants in the "Flood of Youth" festival considered it a step on the path to victory for the "Al-Aqsa Flood" (social networking sites)

Encouragement and responsibility

The speakers called for activating methods that would encourage people to continue boycott campaigns and seek to expand them as much as possible, pointing out that global sympathy for the Palestinian cause and the war on Gaza is declining with the length of the war.

During his participation, Syrian activist Al-Harith Al-Nimr stressed that the battle in the Gaza Strip has gone beyond being a national battle between the Palestinians and the Israeli occupation, and has become a “religious war” in which all Muslim youth around the world must participate, and that the responsibility to work and find the appropriate position in this war belongs to the The young man himself.

The Sharia researcher at the Ministry of Endowments in Gaza, Maysar Salama, sent a message to Arab and Islamic youth that they must support the Palestinian resistance and the residents of Gaza, considering that the achievements achieved by the resistance on the battlefield so far “need global strengthening to continue.”

The participants considered that the “Flood of Youth” festival represents a step on the path to victory for the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” and stressed the necessity of building direct logistical and moral bridges between the Gaza Strip and abroad on an ongoing basis that would work to raise morale and strengthen the steadfastness of the people of the Strip.

In the Gulf, the head of the “Youth for Al-Quds International” association, the Kuwaiti Tariq Al-Shaya, considered the steadfastness and steadfastness of the people of Gaza a daily lesson from which the peoples of the world learn since the beginning of the Israeli aggression against them, and he stressed the position of the Kuwaiti people rejecting normalization and tolerance with the Israeli occupation, regardless of the results and consequences.

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unifying efforts

For his part, human rights activist Ibrahim Al-Naji, in an interview with Al Jazeera Net, praised the “Flood of Youth” festival initiative, pointing out the importance of the integrated dialogue that brings together hundreds of young people who support the Palestinian cause, and stressed that this type of discussion helps unify ideas and connect them in a way that facilitates their transformation into Concrete actions.

He also stressed the need to spread and expand the scope of these activities to include European youth, while confirming the presence of great passion among young people who support the cause and wish to participate in activities that contribute positively on the ground.

Al-Naji urged the need to move from the stage of planning and consultation to the stage of actual action by organizing demonstrations and providing aid by all available means, even those that may seem difficult, pointing to the crisis situation in the Gaza Strip and the urgent need for urgent action to support them.

For its part, the International Union of Muslim Scholars called on scholars, preachers, preachers, heads and secretaries of Islamic associations, organizations and bodies in all Arab countries, to unify the sermon next Friday, February 9, and devote it to introducing all the legal, legal and historical aspects surrounding the issue of Jerusalem and the Palestine Jihad, within the activities of “International Jerusalem Week.”

Source: Al Jazeera