{"id":3400,"date":"2025-12-15T12:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/15\/al-azhar-condemns-jewish-hanukkah-attack-sydney\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:30:15","slug":"al-azhar-condemns-jewish-hanukkah-attack-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/15\/al-azhar-condemns-jewish-hanukkah-attack-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Azhar Condemns Armed Attack on Jewish Hanukkah Event in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Azhar, Egypt&#8217;s foremost Islamic institution, has strongly condemned an armed attack on a Jewish Hanukkah ceremony near a popular beach in Sydney, Australia. In a statement released in response to the incident, Al-Azhar denounced the assault as a violation of both human and religious principles.<\/p>\n<p>The statement emphasized that targeting civilians, regardless of their nationality, religion, or beliefs, is categorically unacceptable. It cited the teachings of the Qur&#8217;an and the Prophet Muhammad, which uphold the sanctity of human life and condemn the shedding of innocent blood.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Azhar also praised the actions of Ahmad Al-Ahmad, a 43-year-old Muslim shopkeeper in Australia, who risked his life to disarm one of the attackers and helped save several people present at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis humane and courageous act reflects a proper understanding of Islamic teachings and demonstrates that Muslims, by nature, are advocates of peace, coexistence, and compassion\u2014not violence,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, at least 16 people were killed and more than 40 injured in the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Azhar condemns deadly armed attack at Jewish Hanukkah event in Sydney, praising Muslim rescuer who disarmed attacker and saved lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}