- Several hospitals in Gaza City have become safe havens for hundreds of Palestinians hoping to avoid bombardment
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) criticized the bombing on Al-Ahi Baptist Hospital in Gaza on Wednesday, amid the ongoing confrontation between Israel and Palestine.
On Tuesday, an airstrike allegedly launched by Israel struck Al-Ahi Baptist Hospital in Gaza, killing at least 500 people.
According to Palestinian health officials, the hospital was overcrowded with injured patients and others seeking refuge.
Several hospitals in Gaza City have become safe havens for hundreds of Palestinians hoping to avoid bombardment.
Since Hamas marched into Gaza on October 7, Israel has launched enormous assaults, killing over 1000 people and taking 200 hostages.
The IMN protest began at the Wuse Zone 3 Pedestrian Bridge and ended at the traffic light near Wuse Market with the burning of the American and Israeli flags.
Sheikh Rabiu Abdullahi, a member of the movement, asked Nigerians to support the “oppressed” Palestinians in a statement.
The statement which was titled “We Condemn Israel Attacks on Gaza Hospital”, reads:
We are protesting to condemn the attacks on al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Central Gaza, made by the illegal state of Israel. The hospital was housing hundreds of sick and wounded people, and people forcibly displaced from their homes.
The bombardment led to the killing of more than 500 people, including patients, staff of the hospital, and displaced Palestinians sheltering inside the hospital. Gaza has been under the Israeli siege since June 2007, which has caused a decline in living standards. We believe that this is a massacre and a war crime.
Israel is in breach of international law, and the Palestinians are fighting to liberate their homeland from 75 years of Israeli oppression and terrorism.
Supporting oppressed people is human, and thus, supporting the oppressed people of Palestine is a duty for all people of conscience. Islam taught us that human beings are either our brothers in religion or in humanity.
As said by Martin Luther King Jr., “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly”.
Calling people to support justice everywhere and oppose tyranny and oppression everywhere is part of the teachings of our leader, Shaikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky (H). For more than three decades, the Islamic movement, under the leadership of his eminence, Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H), has been organising programmes and protests in support of the oppressed people of Palestine.
In view of the foregoing, we urge all in Nigeria to break the deafening silence and raise voices to support the oppressed Palestinians.
We condemn this attack on the Gaza hospital, and the illegal state of Israel must be held liable for this atrocity.
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