Press Release
The Egyptian Regime's Betrayal of Gaza: From Preventing Support Even with Words to Colluding with the Blockade!
In a recurring scene, with every calamity that befalls the besieged people of Gaza, the Arab regimes - foremost of which is the Egyptian regime - prove that they are not only absent from the duty of support, but present in a position of conspiracy and betrayal, and even actual participation in the siege, by guarding the crossings and preventing any symbolic or popular initiative directed towards supporting the vulnerable Muslims.
Here is the Egyptian regime, on June 11, 2025, deporting 12 Moroccan activists who arrived at Cairo Airport legally, with the aim of participating in the "Global March to Gaza," a symbolic convoy called for by activists from various countries around the world, Arabs and non-Arabs, to shed light on what the sector has been suffering from siege, starvation and continuous killing for months. Instead of Egypt, which is considered Gaza's only open gateway, receiving them with aid and support, and opening the way for them to Rafah to witness the injustice, the humiliating security treatment and immediate deportation was the answer.
They were not carrying weapons, nor did they call for explosions or sabotage, but came with hearts full of hope that they would take a symbolic stance of solidarity with a Muslim people who are being slaughtered morning and evening. However, they were besieged inside the airport, interrogated with humiliating questions, and given the choice between detention or expulsion, as if solidarity with Gaza is a crime in the eyes of this regime!
It is unreasonable for this incident to be accidental, or related to mere border controls as the Egyptian Foreign Ministry claimed. It is well known that the Rafah crossing is fully under Egyptian control, and is open to the Egyptian regime whenever it wants, and it can allow whoever it wants to enter and prevent whoever it wants. However, this authority over the crossing has never been used to support the people of Gaza, but has remained a means of pressure and siege exercised in the name of sovereignty, to become a tool to serve the security of the Jewish entity.
Whoever tightly closes the crossing in the face of aid, prevents symbolic convoys, suppresses solidarity demonstrations, and classifies feelings of anger as a security threat, cannot be excused for ignorance or inability, but is an accomplice in the crime.
Muslims in Gaza, or elsewhere, must not be left to face killing, siege, starvation, and destruction without the Ummah supporting them, especially those who are able to provide support. The Egyptian regime, with its army, agencies, and capabilities, is among the closest who are able, and it cannot be excused for remaining silent, but is sinful for neglecting the duty. Allah Almighty said: ﴿And if they seek help of you for the religion, then you must help﴾. If merely seeking help makes support obligatory, then what about when the people of Gaza have repeatedly sought help, and the Islamic Ummah everywhere has shown its willingness to stand with them? What was the regime's position? It neither supported them, nor even allowed those who wanted to comfort them. Even more surprising than that is that the regime has moved from the position of a defaulter to the position of obstructing every initiative, even those that do not threaten anything of its authority, as if mere solidarity with Gaza has become in its view a "security threat," and this shows that it has made an explicit decision to side with the enemy of the Ummah, and that it sees the Palestinian issue only as a burden that must be silenced.
The duty of the Egyptian army, and the regime that holds political and military decision-making power, is to direct its forces not towards repelling convoys or closing crossings, but towards opening the crossing by force, breaking the siege on Gaza, striking the fortresses of the Jews, and liberating all of Palestine, not standing on the ruins of the Rafah crossing waiting for permission from America or approval from Tel Aviv.
The land of Palestine is an Islamic land usurped, and it is the duty of all Muslims to liberate it, and the armies first, and this is a definitive legal duty that does not lapse with time or by invoking international covenants or treacherous treaties. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: «Free the captive», meaning the prisoner. Where are the armies from liberating thousands of prisoners in the prisons of the Jews? Rather, where are they from liberating the prisoners besieged inside the Gaza Strip? The borders have turned into a large prison that is tightly closed in the name of "sovereignty," and sovereignty is innocent of Islam if it prevents Muslims from supporting their brothers.
What the activists did, despite its symbolism and the fact that it does not provide anything for the people of Gaza, expresses an advanced awareness in the Ummah, whose cause has not died, and has not forgotten its duty. But the problem is not in the people, but in the regimes that guard the Jewish entity and normalize with it openly or secretly, and fight the Ummah in its religion, belief, and positions.
The Egyptian regime today does not stand neutral, but is an active party in the equation of strangling Gaza. Rather, its participation in the siege often exceeds the criminality of the Jews, because it prevents even the air of mercy from reaching the sector. It beats activists, persecutes journalists, deports those in solidarity, and silences voices, because it realizes that any free voice is a threat to its subservient, humiliating rule.
One of the greatest disasters that the regimes have entrenched after Sykes-Picot is the planting of the concept of "national sovereignty," according to which the Moroccan Muslim becomes a stranger in Egypt, the Egyptian Muslim a foreigner in Syria, and the Jordanian Muslim an intruder in Palestine. This is contrary to Islam, which made the Ummah one, so it does not recognize borders, passports, or visas. Does a Moroccan Muslim need a visa to reach the land of Palestine?! And is he asked about his intention to show solidarity?! Or has support become a crime, and betrayal an honor in the eyes of the client regimes?!
What happened at Cairo Airport is not an isolated incident, but a symptom of a chronic disease that has afflicted the ruling regime, which is betraying the Ummah and its belief, and engaging in the American-Zionist project to liquidate the Palestinian issue. This regime cannot be reformed by patching or appealing, but it can only be reformed by uprooting it from its roots, and establishing in its place the system of Islam, the Rightly Guided Khilafah according to the method of Prophethood, which moves armies to liberate Al-Aqsa, and raises the banner of Islam. What the Ummah, especially its youth, must realize is that the road to Palestine does not pass through begging the regimes, nor through symbolic convoys, despite their purposeful symbolism, but through radical change in the Muslim countries, by establishing the State of Islam, which knows nothing but victory or martyrdom.
O soldiers of Kinana: The liberation of Palestine is a duty on your necks, and there is nothing more obligatory after faith than to do it, and expelling the military presence of the disbelievers from the Muslim countries is obligatory on you before others, for when the attack occurs on the land of Islam or when it is known that the enemy is preparing to invade the Muslim countries, then jihad becomes obligatory to repel the enemy until sufficiency is achieved for everyone in that land, and if the enemy takes control of it, the obligation of jihad moves from that country to those who are adjacent to them, and if they cannot, then to those who are adjacent to them, and so on until the obligation covers all Muslims. If the enemy takes control of a specific land, jihad becomes optional for the people of that occupied land because they become prisoners, but it remains obligatory on the capable Muslims in the countries surrounding the occupied area, and since the regime that rules you prevents jihad to liberate the occupied lands, and "what is indispensable to fulfill an obligation is itself obligatory," then removing this regime is obligatory in order to restore jihad and liberate the land of Islam and its holy places, and before it the crown of obligations; ruling by Islam in its state, the Rightly Guided Khilafah according to the method of Prophethood.
O soldiers of Kinana: You were and still are a shield for the Ummah; a weapon in its hand, so regain your freedom and side with your Ummah and cut the ropes of the rulers that surround you, and discard their privileges, ranks, and salaries, and put your hands in the hand of those who lead you to a paradise as wide as the heavens and the earth, for it is more beneficial and lasting for you with Allah, and carry with them the concern of your Ummah and restore with them its authority anew under Islam and its state, the Rightly Guided Khilafah according to the method of Prophethood.
﴿And what is [the matter] with you that you do not fight in the cause of Allah and [for] the oppressed among men, women, and children?﴾
The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
In Wilayah Egypt