The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, has declared that what is happening on the ground in Palestine is a hideous atrocity and a crime of unprecedented magnitude, stressing that these events cannot be described as war, since war is typically fought between two equal sides. He described it as the extermination of innocent civilians by an army that is clad with deadly weapons, and that what we are witnessing today, and have been witnessing for almost three months, is true terrorism, killing, hatred, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, and that the world is allowing the bloodshed of innocents, while doing nothing to stop it.