{"id":135548,"date":"2026-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/archives\/135548"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:00:00","slug":"chair-of-the-jerusalem-and-palestine-committee-of-the-union-participates-in-gaza-and-jerusalem-iftar-in-canakkale-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/archives\/135548","title":{"rendered":"Chair of the Jerusalem and Palestine Committee of the Union Participates in &#8220;Gaza and Jerusalem&#8221; Iftar in \u00c7anakkale, Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#EE0000\">Chair of the Jerusalem and Palestine Committee of the Union<br \/>\nParticipates in &#8220;Gaza and Jerusalem&#8221; Iftar in \u00c7anakkale, Turkey<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u00c7anakkale<br \/>\n\u2013 March 10, 2026<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Professor<br \/>\nDr. Marwan Abu Ras, Chair of the Jerusalem and Palestine Committee at the<br \/>\nInternational Union of Muslim Scholars, participated in the &#8220;Gaza and<br \/>\nJerusalem&#8221; Iftar organized by the \u0130lim Yayma Cemiyeti (Association for the<br \/>\nDissemination of Knowledge) in the city of \u00c7anakkale, Turkey (a coastal city<br \/>\nand seaport in the \u00c7anakkale Province on Turkey\u2019s southern coast), at the kind<br \/>\ninvitation of the branch head, Dr. Nimatullah Akin.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The<br \/>\ngathering, held at the association\u2019s headquarters in a spiritually charged<br \/>\natmosphere of brotherhood and solidarity, witnessed significant attendance from<br \/>\nacademic elites, professors, scholars, business figures, as well as students<br \/>\nand individuals concerned with the Palestinian cause. This reflected the deep<br \/>\nemotional and societal connection that the issue of Jerusalem and Palestine<br \/>\nholds in the hearts of the nation.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">In his<br \/>\nspeech, Dr. Abu Ras addressed the critical developments affecting the holy<br \/>\ncity, focusing on the blockade imposed on the West Bank and highlighting the<br \/>\nunprecedented closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque for more than ten consecutive days,<br \/>\ndescribing it as a serious precedent. He also warned against ongoing attempts<br \/>\nby the occupying forces to impose a new reality aimed at isolating the first<br \/>\nQibla from its Islamic and historical depth.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Dr. Abu<br \/>\nRas further reviewed the current field and humanitarian conditions in the Gaza<br \/>\nStrip, stressing that the chapters of extermination and displacement have not<br \/>\nceased and that the suffering of the population continues amid what he<br \/>\ndescribed as legendary resilience against the machinery of destruction. He<br \/>\nemphasized that both religious and humanitarian duty necessitate intensifying<br \/>\nefforts to support Gaza and assist its people during this critical period.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The<br \/>\nsession concluded with an open discussion, during which Dr. Abu Ras responded<br \/>\nto attendees\u2019 questions and engaged with their interventions, before the<br \/>\ngathering ended with a collective prayer for the steadfastness, victory, and<br \/>\nempowerment of the Islamic nation and the people of Palestine.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">(Source:<br \/>\nInternational Union of Muslim Scholars)<span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:1.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">* \u0644\u0644\u0627\u0637\u0644\u0627\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062e\u0628\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;\nfont-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u060c \u0627\u0636\u063a\u0637 (<span style=\"color:#EE0000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/ar\/ContentDetails.aspx?ID=41193\" target=\"_blank\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/b><b><span dir=\"LTR\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chair of the Jerusalem and Palestine Committee of the Union Participates in &#8220;Gaza and Jerusalem&#8221; Iftar in \u00c7anakkale, Turkey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[912],"class_list":["post-135548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-activities-en","tag-committees-jerusalem-and-palestine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}