Former Hamas chief calls for protest neighbors to join the war against Israel.

Khaled Meshaal, a former leader of Hamas, urged Muslims worldwide to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinians on Friday and join the struggle against Israel.

Meshaal, presently in charge of the Hamas office in the diaspora, stated in an audio message supplied to Reuters that “[we] must go to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday.”

According to Meshaal, who is located in Qatar, the governments and peoples of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt have a greater responsibility to help the Palestinians.

“Tribes of Jordan, sons of Jordan, brothers and sisters of Jordan… This is a moment of truth and the borders are close to you, you all know your responsibility,” Meshaal stated.

Most of the Palestinian refugees are settled in Jordan and Lebanon.

His rallying cry came as Israel pledged to launch a ground invasion in response to a Hamas strike after its fighter planes attacked more than 200 sites in Gaza City overnight. According to the health ministry of Gaza, the cramped coastal territory has seen at least 950 fatalities and 5,000 injuries.

In history’s bloodiest Palestinian militant attack on Israel, Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip rampaged over portions of southern Israel on Saturday.

“To all scholars who teach jihad… to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application of theories,” Meshaal stated.