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PA mufti calls on Muslims to ‘liberate Palestine’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSheikh Muhammad Hussein, the mufti of the Palestinian Authority, said last week that “the land of Palestine is Waqf, i.e., inalienable religious endowment, according to Islamic law. It must neither be relinquished, nor must any part of it be sold… It is the duty of the leaders of the [Islamic] nation and its peoples to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem.”
Hussein was appointed in 2006 by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the position, which is the most senior religious post in the PA.
The mufti made the comments at a conference of Muslim scholars “over 46 countries,” according to a report in al-Hayat al-Jadida, according to Palestinian Media Watch, an NGO that monitors Palestinian public media outlets.
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