Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb said in a December 23, 2023, interview on Channel 1 (Egypt) that the war in Gaza is a genocidal war. He continued to say that October 7 was not an action in itself, but a reaction to a "chain of massacres." Al-Tayyeb said that if Egypt cuts off the oil supply and stops providing materials from its mines to European factories, "things will